New sensors can detect single protein molecules
Modified carbon nanotubes could be used to track protein production by individual cells.
Probing the function of key proteins
Professor Barbara Imperiali creates better biochemical tools for basic biology and drug development.
Protein imaging reveals detailed brain architecture
New technique could contribute to efforts to map the human brain.
Engineers design magnetic cell sensors
New protein nanoparticles allow scientists to track cells and interactions within them.
Analyzing protein structures in their native environment
Enhanced-sensitivity NMR could reveal new clues to how proteins fold.
Automating single-molecule image studies
MIT physics graduate student James Owen Andrews is developing software to improve dynamic image capture from super-resolution fluorescent microscopes.
Faculty Highlight: Ibrahim Cissé
Assistant professor of physics probes the formation of enzyme clusters that enable gene copying and protein production in living cells.
Diamonds could help bring proteins into focus
New technique could use tiny diamond defects to reveal unprecedented detail of molecular structures.
Piecing together molecular machines
Newly tenured biologist Iain Cheeseman explores the complex structures that control cell division.
Markus Buehler named head of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
An MIT faculty member since 2006, Buehler succeeds Andrew Whittle as CEE department head.
Sorting out the structure of a Parkinson’s protein
Computer modeling may resolve conflicting results and offer hints for new drug-design strategies.
Study offers new way to discover HIV vaccine targets
Ragon Institute researchers develop a method to identify weak points in viral proteins that could be exploited for vaccine development.
Mapping the living cell
New technique pinpoints protein locations, helping scientists figure out their functions.
Putting the squeeze on cells
By deforming cells, researchers can deliver RNA, proteins and nanoparticles for many applications.
Evolution: It’s all in how you splice it
MIT biologists find that alternative splicing of RNA rewires signaling in different tissues and may often contribute to species differences.