Genetics

An MIT team has created polymer-DNA nanoparticles to deliver disease-fighting genes . From left are Daniel Anderson, a research associate at the MIT Center for Cancer Research, bioengineering graduate student Jordan Green and Greg Zugates, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering.

MIT works toward safer gene therapy

Biodegradable polymers replace viruses to deliver genes

September 7, 2007

MIT research details parasitic battles

Work indicates impact on evolution

September 5, 2007

This photo shows an immobilized C. elegans worm inside the new microfluidic chip designed at MIT. The green spots are neurons.

MIT invents 'lab on a chip' to automate whole-animal genetic and drug screens

August 20, 2007

MIT post-doc Joel Neilson, left, graduate student Margaret Ebert and Institute Professor Phillip Sharp have developed a new technique to study the function of microRNA that could shed light on the genetic material's hypothesized role in cancer.

MIT's MicroRNA 'sponges' could aid cancer studies

August 12, 2007

Whitehead postdoctoral students Stuart Levine and Matthew Guenther

Team finds new mechanism of gene control

Further understanding might aid regenerative medicine, more

July 12, 2007

Team reports genetic link between aging, neurodegenerative disorders

Work could lead to new drugs against Alzheimer's, more

July 9, 2007

Team sheds light on cells' career path

Work could impact developmental biology, regenerative medicine

July 1, 2007

Susumu Tonegawa, professor of biology at the Picower Center for Learning and Memory and Mansuo L. Hayashi, former Picower Center for Learning and Memory post-doc in Tonegawa's lab at MIT. They have reversed symptoms of retardation in mice due to Fragile X syndrome.

MIT locates key enzyme for reversing retardation in mice

'Elegant genetic manipulation' inhibits Fragile X symptoms

June 25, 2007

Biology professor Leonard Guarente, left, and postdoctoral associate Nicholas Bishop, in the lab where they have been studying longevity in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

MIT biologists link calorie restriction, endocrine function in worm longevity

Identifying neurons advances MIT study of aging

June 18, 2007

Naturally derived embryonic stem cells from mice (left) are morphologically identical to reprogrammed fibroblasts (right).

Scientists create embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos

Researchers are 'optimistic' that the process can one day work in human cells

June 6, 2007

An MIT research team studying gene regulation in mouse and human liver cells has found that master regulatory proteins function differently in the two. From left, post-doc Robin Dowell, Professor Ernest Fraenkel, graduate student Kenzie MacIsaac and research technician William Gordon discuss their research.

Mice and men make livers differently

Work should guide researchers using mice as models for human biology

May 21, 2007

Part of the global team responsible for confirming the protein RESA's role in causing malaria by binding to red blood cells, in a lab at MIT. Professor Subra Suresh, left, research scientist Ming Dao, standing, post-doc Monica Diez Silva, seated, graduate student David Quinn, seated, graduate student John Mills, and professor Matthew Lang.

MIT-led team ID's cell mechanics of hallmark malaria protein

GEM4's multidisciplinary, multinational research targets public health crises like malaria

May 21, 2007

From left to right, Professors Linda Griffith and Leona Samson with Harvey Lodish of the Whitehead Institute, and graduate student Joe Shuga.

DNA-damage test could aid drug development

May 14, 2007

Team unearths genetic risk factors for diabetes

Three novel regions of the genome influence the risk of type 2 diabetes

May 11, 2007

Scientists at the Broad Institute, in completing the genome sequence of the opossum, have found that so-called junk DNA may play a creative role in evolution.

Opossum genome, just decoded, sheds light on evolution

'Restless lifestyle' of so-called junk DNA has meaning for all

May 9, 2007

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