National Academy of Sciences elects four MIT professors | MIT News

Chakraborty, Lynch, Ploegh, and Sabatini honored for research achievements.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
May 3, 2016 ~5 min

Spotting hidden activity in cells | MIT News

New data analysis technique distinguishes active from passive fluctuations inside cells.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
April 28, 2016 ~7 min


Biobarrier explorer and dark matter theorist win MIT’s prestigious junior faculty award | MIT News

Katharina Ribbeck and Jesse Thaler named recipients of the Harold E. Edgerton Award.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
April 20, 2016 ~7 min

James Collins appointed 2016 Allen Distinguished Investigator | MIT News

Award will support the engineering of safe, frequently consumed bacteria to detect and kill dangerous bacteria such as those causing drug-resistant infections.

Karen Shaner | Institute for Medical Engineering and Science • mit
April 13, 2016 ~2 min

An ace on the court and in the lab | MIT News

EECS senior Ava Soleimany talks about leadership, her research in synthetic biology, and her tenure as captain of the women’s tennis team.

Mijal Tenenbaum | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science • mit
April 12, 2016 ~7 min

Research sheds light on delicate forest biodiversity | MIT News

Quantitative study of Poland's Bialowieza Forest highlights processes shaping species coexistence and potential impacts of deforestation.

Marilyn Siderwicz | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • mit
April 11, 2016 ~5 min

Taking on melanoma, one cell at a time | MIT News

In step toward personalized medicine, researchers are using single-cell analysis to unravel cancer’s secrets.

News Office • mit
April 7, 2016 ~10 min

Reprogramming gut bacteria as “living therapeutics” | MIT News

Daily doses of synthetic biotics developed by startup Synologic may sense, treat metabolic diseases.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
April 5, 2016 ~8 min


IDSS conversations: Caroline Uhler | MIT News

Electrical engineering and computer science assistant professor is working at the intersection of genomics and computational biology.

Jennifer Donovan | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society • mit
March 24, 2016 ~7 min

Forming patches boosts bacterial life | MIT News

By clustering, cells can work together to survive challenging environments, MIT researchers show.

Denis Paiste | Materials Processing Center • mit
March 23, 2016 ~7 min

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