Bioengineering and biotechnology

Picower research finds unexpected activity in visual cortex

March 16, 2006

Research scientist Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, left, and Professor Gerald E. Schneider, both of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, worked with others to create a technique that helps rodents recover from traumatic brain injuries. The monitor shows a microscopic view of the brain repair.

MIT researchers restore vision in rodents blinded by brain damage

March 13, 2006

Robert Weinberg wins major cancer prize

March 8, 2006

The journal nature has published 'Adventures in Synthetic Biology,' a comic by Drew Endy, Isadora Deese and the MIT Synthetic Biology Working Group, illustrated by Chuck Wadey.

Endy gives talk on DNA programming

March 8, 2006

Ruth Bodner, a postdoctoral fellow in MIT's Center for Cancer Research, has discovered a compound that could lead to the development of a new treatment for Huntington's disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder.

Research holds promise for Huntington's treatment

March 6, 2006

MIT method reveals how radiation damages the body

February 28, 2006

MIT researchers have found that synchronized neurons speed up attention. The color scale in these graphs indicates the degree of synchronized activity of neurons in the monkey's V4 area of the visual cortex. The more the neurons fire in synchrony (red), the faster the monkey notices a small color change in an attended picture (348 instead of 498 milliseconds).

Neurons in sync focus attention, researchers find

February 24, 2006

Thousands of different types of microbes inhabit every cubic centimeter of seawater. Most of the organisms in this picture are about 1/2 of a micrometer, or thousandth of a meter, wide.

Microbe DNA helps scientists understand ocean

February 22, 2006

Minority recruiting efforts outlined at faculty meeting

Biological engineering approved as new course

February 21, 2006

Sheri Simmons uses a pipette to place water samples onto a microscope slide to look at the swimming behavior of magnetotactic bacteria. Her advisor and co-author, Katrina Edwards, is at left.

Bacterium found to have strange magnetic personality

February 17, 2006

'Mad cow protein' found to aid creation of brain cells

February 16, 2006

Picower Institute research indicates rats mentally replay their most recent actions--in reverse. The study may shed light on mechanisms of learning and memory.

Picower researcher explains how rats think

February 12, 2006

Inventors Hall of Fame to induct 2 professors

February 9, 2006

Structure of epilson15 bacteriophage, a virus that infects Salmonella. One end of the DNA genome (blue) is poised for injection into a host cell.

New images capture virus in extraordinary detail

February 8, 2006

Energy talk explores biomass potential

February 6, 2006

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