Biobarrier explorer and dark matter theorist win MIT’s prestigious junior faculty award
Katharina Ribbeck and Jesse Thaler named recipients of the Harold E. Edgerton Award.
Forming patches boosts bacterial life
By clustering, cells can work together to survive challenging environments, MIT researchers show.
Breaking through the bacteria barrier
New microfluidic device may speed up DNA insertion in bacteria, the first step in genetic engineering.
Using microbes to clean up oil spills
Professor Catherine Drennan and graduate student Michael Funk want energy production and environmental protection to go hand in hand.
Microbe sleuth
Tanja Bosak examines how life and the Earth evolved in tandem during their early history together.
Out of sight and out of mind, sewage can actually tell us a lot about health
PhD student Mariana Matus studies human waste to understand individual and community health.
Uncovering diversity in an invisible ocean world
New research indicates marine plankton are not only more diverse than previously thought, but also profoundly affected by their environment.
Solving carbon mysteries of the deep ocean
New research from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reveals a hidden deep-ocean carbon cycle.
New interdisciplinary center at MIT to focus on the microbiome and human health
Partnership with MGH, other institutions to foster regional ecosystem for rapidly evolving field.
Battling superbugs
Two new technologies could enable novel strategies for combating drug-resistant bacteria.
Broadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography
With an infusion of funds from the Simons Foundation, a collaboration between MIT researchers and colleagues will break new ground in the study of marine microbes.
Monitoring the rise and fall of the microbiome
Close analysis of bacteria in the human digestive tract reveals links to diet and other lifestyle factors.
Bacteria: A day in the life
MIT study finds ocean bacteria follow predictable patterns of daily activity.
Ocean microbes display a hidden talent: releasing countless tiny lipid-filled sacs
MIT finding could one day lead to new approaches for manufacturing biofuels.