Genetics
The games microbes play
April 6, 2009
Game theory study in yeast shows how cooperative behavior meshes with evolutionary theory
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Physics
Q&A with Richard Hynes on stem cell funding
March 18, 2009
Lifting the ban
March 10, 2009
Potential cancer-causing genes removed from engineered stem cells
March 5, 2009
Whitehead work involved reprogrammed skin cells from Parkinson's patient
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Cancer, Health sciences and technology, Neuroscience
Multiple genes implicated in autism
February 9, 2009
Discovery could lead to drugs targeting gene interactions
Also labeled: Health sciences and technology, Neuroscience
Preventing prostate cancer the complex way
February 2, 2009
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Cancer
Study links genetic, environmental causes of Parkinson's
February 1, 2009
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Neuroscience
What causes motor complications of Parkinson's treatment?
January 29, 2009
MIT study identifies genes linked to key side effect; work signals new approaches
Chemists engineer plants to produce new compounds
January 18, 2009
Periwinkle plant cells could synthesize potential drugs
Do-it-yourself biology: Learning to build a better microbe
January 13, 2009
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology
Too much of a good thing
January 9, 2009
Excessive DNA repair can lead to retinal degeneration
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Health sciences and technology
Getting cells to pair off
January 4, 2009
New device couples, fuses cells for stem cell research
Nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells
December 14, 2008
Chemical engineers use carbon nanotubes to monitor chemotherapy, detect toxins at the single-molecule level
Reversing the conventional DNA wisdom
December 4, 2008
Researchers find DNA is transcribed by divergent polymerases
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Cancer
Untangling DNA regulation
November 6, 2008
Biologists theorize role for DNA packaging in stem cell development
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Cancer
Human genes sing different tunes in different tissues
November 2, 2008
Biologists find almost all genes express multiple messenger RNAs
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Cancer
Too much of a good thing: Cells with extra chromosomes share detrimental traits
October 30, 2008
New findings could help fight cancer
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Cancer
MIT neuroscience bolstered by new faculty, viral core facility
October 27, 2008
Also labeled: Health sciences and technology, Neuroscience
Broad Institute awarded major grant
October 1, 2008
Why chemo works for some people and not others
September 18, 2008
MIT cell findings could predict individuals' responses
Glenn Foundation gift creates new lab for the science of aging
September 9, 2008
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Health sciences and technology
Philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad make unprecedented gift to endow the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
September 4, 2008
$400 million endowment gift brings total commitment to $600 million; Novel experiment in new way of doing science declared early success
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Health sciences and technology
MIT researchers offer glimpse of rare mutant cells
July 21, 2008
Imaging system may help understand origins of cancer
Team unveils 'parts list' of cell powerhouse
July 11, 2008
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Health sciences and technology
New technique produces genetically identical stem cells
July 1, 2008
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology
Proliferating cells foil microRNA control
June 20, 2008
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Cancer
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