Simons Foundation-backed CBIOMES brings together researchers in oceanography, statistics, data science, ecology, biogeochemistry, and remote sensing.

MIT study finds synapses develop strength with calcium, maturation.

Initiative is building collections highlighting the contributions of female faculty.

Researchers identify the amino acid aspartate as a metabolic limitation in certain cancers.

Three MIT faculty members selected for funding from the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation.

Mechanism-based cancer prevention is poised to further decrease the numbers of U.S. cancer deaths, says MIT professor emerita.

In a visit with the Department of Biology, Lydia Villa-Komaroff PhD '75 explains how “thinking fast makes changing slow.”

Study reveals atomic structure of tropoelastin, showing what goes wrong in some diseases.

Shortfall of digestive enzymes can lead to tissue breakdown in early stages of pancreatic cancer.

Researchers generate an intestinal cell mimic that can be harnessed in studies of diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease.