The research may enable the design of synthetic, light-activated cells for wound healing or drug delivery.

Matt Shoulders will lead an interdisciplinary team to improve RuBisCO — the photosynthesis enzyme thought to be the holy grail for improving agricultural yield.

Microbes that safely break down antibiotics could prevent opportunistic infections and reduce the spread of antibiotic resistance.

Researchers create a mathematical framework to examine the genome and detect signatures of natural selection, deciphering the evolutionary past and future of non-coding DNA.

MIT engineers design the first synthetic circuit that consists entirely of fast, reversible protein-protein interactions.

A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in.

Chemical engineers program bacteria to switch between different metabolic pathways, boosting their yield of desirable products.