Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms.

Research underscores infection is not a common hospital transmission.

Findings could help researchers design drugs to treat influenza B infections.

MIT sophomore Rachel Shen looks for microscopic solutions to big environmental challenges.

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.

Researchers find master regulator needed for Toxoplasma gondii parasite to chronically infect host; promising step toward infection treatment, prevention.

The same neurons responsible for encoding reward also form new memories to suppress fearful ones.

Biologists devise an efficient method to prepare fluorescently tagged proteins and simulate their native environment.

A molecule that’s known for its smelly and poisonous nature on Earth may be a sure-fire sign of extraterrestrial life.