The new front against antibiotic resistance
Deborah Hung shares research strategies to combat tuberculosis as part of the Department of Biology's IAP seminar series on microbes in health and disease.
Lucy Jakub | Department of Biology | Jan. 23, 2020 | mit~6 mins
Tags: biology broad-institute independent-activities-period school-of-science bacteria data microbes research antibiotics drug-development disease special-events-and-guest-speakers
Printing objects that can incorporate living organisms
A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | Jan. 23, 2020 | mit~7 mins
Tags: 3-d-printing design manufacturing media-lab research synthetic-biology school-of-architecture-and-planning
Putting a finger on the switch of chronic parasite infection
Researchers find master regulator needed for Toxoplasma gondii parasite to chronically infect host; promising step toward infection treatment, prevention.
Greta Friar | Whitehead Institute | Jan. 21, 2020 | mit~6 mins
Tags: whitehead-institute biology chemistry disease genetics crispr medicine research parasites school-of-science
With these neurons, extinguishing fear is its own reward
The same neurons responsible for encoding reward also form new memories to suppress fearful ones.
David Orenstein | Picower Institute | Jan. 21, 2020 | mit~7 mins
Tags: picower-institute biology brain-and-cognitive-sciences memory anxiety neuroscience research school-of-science mental-health learning
First stranded Orca found in almost 20 years in the Wash
The dead 15ft (4.5m) long juvenile killer whale was found on the coast of Norfolk and Lincolnshire.
BBC Science News | Jan. 14, 2020 | bbcnews~1 mins
Tags: whale-and-dolphin-strandings whales marine-biology zoological-society-of-london
Building a platform to image membrane proteins
Biologists devise an efficient method to prepare fluorescently tagged proteins and simulate their native environment.
Raleigh McElvery | Department of Biology | Dec. 18, 2019 | mit~6 mins
Tags: biology chemistry school-of-science bacteria disease research drug-development cells
A sign that aliens could stink
A molecule that’s known for its smelly and poisonous nature on Earth may be a sure-fire sign of extraterrestrial life.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office | Dec. 18, 2019 | mit~8 mins
Tags: astronomy astrophysics biology chemistry eaps earth-and-atmospheric-sciences kavli-institute planetary-science research school-of-science space astronomy-and-planetary-science
A new way to regulate gene expression
Biologists uncover an evolutionary trick to control gene expression that reverses the flow of genetic information from RNA splicing back to transcription.
Raleigh McElvery | Department of Biology | Dec. 9, 2019 | mit~6 mins
Tags: biology school-of-science data disease dna evolution genetics health research national-institutes-of-health-nih
How biomarkers can record and reconstruct climate trends
Scientists reveal the genes and proteins controlling the chemical structure of a paleoclimate biomarker.
Fatima Husain | EAPS | Dec. 4, 2019 | mit~5 mins
Tags: eaps school-of-science research climate ocean-science dna biology geology climate-change microbes evolution genetics bacteria earth-and-atmospheric-sciences national-science-foundation-nsf department-of-energy-doe
Investigating the rise of oxygenic photosynthesis
EAPS scientists find an alternative explanation for mineral evidence thought to signal the presence of oxygen prior to the Great Oxidation Event.
Kate Petersen | EAPS | Dec. 4, 2019 | mit~5 mins
Tags: eaps school-of-science microbes environment climate bacteria evolution biology geology research genetics
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