MIT News: Prof Ron Weiss and graduate student Jacob Becraft
MIT biological engineers have devised a way to regulate the expression of RNA once it gets into cells, giving them precise control over the dose of protein that a patient receives, as shown in this conceptual image. Learn More
MIT News: Amy Keating
Using a computer modeling approach that they developed, Keating Lab identified three different proteins that can bind selectively to each of three similar targets, all members of the Bcl-2 family of proteins. Learn More
MIT News: Prof Linda Griffith and visiting scholar Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi launched her appointment as a visiting scholar in the Center for Gynepathology Research. Learn More
MIT News: Prof Roger Kamm
Kamm Lab have designed a microfluidic chip in which they produced the first 3-D human tissue model of the interface between motor neurons and muscle fibers, replicating the motor neuron connections affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Learn More
MIT News: PhD student Zijay Tang
Tang is working on engineering living materials that can sense aspects of their environment and relay what they’ve sensed back to researchers. Learn More
New York Times: Prof James Collins & Prof Timothy Lu
BE faculty are retooling bacteria to cure disease. Learn More