Genetic engineering

Selecta Biosciences hopes its technology can be used to mitigate the unwanted immune responses of hundreds of drugs.

Biotech startup uses nanoparticles to induce immune tolerance

Selecta Bioscience’s ImmTOR platform could improve gene therapies and prevent some drug side effects.

May 23, 2019

Keeping genetic engineering localized

Researchers are developing a so-called "daisy-chain" gene-drive system that provides controls for genetic engineering of certain populations.

April 2, 2019

Professor Kristala Jones Prather leads a discussion at MITEI about the future of biofuels — and whether the prime window of time for their deployment has already passed or has not yet come. Prather argued for the latter. “I think it’s too early,” she told the undergraduates. “We just haven’t spent enough time on the problem yet.”

Kristala Prather: Advancing energy-efficient biochemistry

Associate professor of chemical engineering talks about the future of biochemistry and the next generation of scientists and engineers.

July 16, 2018

An artist's depiction of the CRISPR system in action.

Broad Institute awarded first patent for CRISPR-Cas9 system

April 17, 2014

Alan Jasanoff, an MIT associate professor of biological engineering and leader of the research team.

MRI reveals genetic activity

New MIT technique could help decipher genes’ roles in learning and memory.

March 25, 2014

New view of tumors’ evolution

Sequencing of cancer cell genomes reveals potential new drug targets for an aggressive type of lung cancer.

March 13, 2014

Research update: Genome editing becomes more accurate

Improved technique makes it easier to add or delete genes in living cells, with less risk of off-target DNA damage.

July 21, 2013

A new technique developed at MIT can edit DNA in precise locations.

Editing the genome with high precision

New method allows scientists to insert multiple genes in specific locations, delete defective genes.

January 3, 2013

Micrograph shows a group of <i>Ralstonia eutropha</i> bacteria in culture. In their natural form, as seen here, the microbes convert carbon in their surrounding into a kind of bioplastic — seen as the light-colored dots inside their membranes. But a biologically engineered version developed at MIT instead produces isobutanol fuel, which is then expelled from the cells into the surrounding medium...

Teaching a microbe to make fuel

Genetically modified organism could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel.

August 21, 2012

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