Genetics

The cycle by which MIT/Whitehead scientists successfully treated mice with a human sickle-cell anemia disease trait, using a process that begins by directly reprogramming the mice's own cells to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state.

MIT corrects sickle-cell anemia in mice

Research involves reprogramming adult cells

December 7, 2007

MIT team discovers bacterial surprise

A DNA shift never before seen in nature

December 3, 2007

Genomic study of malaria parasite unearths surprising behaviors

November 28, 2007

Scientists decode genomes of tuberculosis microbes

Work could aid research on drug-resistant TB

November 26, 2007

Leona Samson, left, and Dr. Rebecca Fry have found that prenatal exposure to arsenic leads to alarming changes in the genetics of newborn babies. Samson is the director of MIT's Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) and the American Cancer Society Professor in the Departments of Biological Engineering and Biology. Fry is assistant scientific director of CEHS.

Prenatal arsenic exposure detected in newborns

Research could lead to test for screening populations for the poison

November 22, 2007

Team analyzes genomes of 12 fly species

Approach could unlock secrets of human genome

November 9, 2007

Study charts genomic landscape of lung cancer

November 7, 2007

The team from Peking Unversity, winners of the fourth annual iGEM competition.

Hundreds attend iGem Jamboree

November 5, 2007

MIT links gene to cholesterol

Research could lead to drugs for atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's

October 11, 2007

Amon, Golub win cancer prize

Paul Marks Prize recognizes significant research contributions

October 3, 2007

Genes influence people's choices in economics game

October 1, 2007

Team demos safety of RNA therapy

Research could lead to treatments for cancer, many other diseases

September 26, 2007

MIT IDs binocular vision gene

Research could lead to treatments for some visual disorders

September 13, 2007

Genome study shines light on genetic link to height

First reproducible connection made between genes and height in humans

September 10, 2007

A scanning electron micrograph of one of the
seventeen fungal species analyzed in the study.

Team probes history of genes with new tool