Credit: Institut PasteurScientists from the Institut Pasteur have demonstrated the role of lysosomal vesicles in transporting α-synuclein aggregates, responsible for...
Cynthia Goldsmith This colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion....
There are 3 epidemic types of S. Enteritidis based on 675 isolates; 2 African epidemic types and a global epidemic...
Caenorhabditis elegans. Credit: WikipediaMicrosporidia cause diarrhea, an illness called microsporidiosis and even death in immune-compromised individuals. In spite of those...
A new technique for programming human stem cells to produce different types of tissue on demand may ultimately allow personalized...
MIT researchers have developed a simple procedure for making a promising type of solar cell using lead recovered from discarded...
Four MIT faculty members have been named 2015 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI): Angela M. Belcher is...
CHAPEL HILL-Requiring students to get vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, to enter school could prevent many cancers linked...
Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Neuroscientists today publish in Neuron details of a revolutionary new way of mapping the brain...
A study performed by researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) shows swimming is as effective as walking...
A chance observation in a Southern California fast food restaurant led Luis Martinez, Ph.D., to wonder about the connections behind...
Rheumatoid arthritis patients taking medications that inhibit interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), a molecule that stimulates the immune system, are 300 times more...
Credits: Wikimedia.orgCOLUMBUS, Ohio – New research links specific inherited genetic differences (alterations) to an increased risk for eye (uveal) melanoma,...
Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found that a form of magnetic resonance imaging...
When MIT moved from Boston to Cambridge in 1916, it built a new campus designed to foster collaboration across disparate...
Camilo Ruiz, an MIT senior majoring in biological engineering, is one of 35 American students to be awarded this year’s...
An MIT spinout, Synlogic, is aiming to create a new class of medicines, by re-programming bacteria found in the gut...
Feng Zhang, a core institute member of the Broad Institute, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at...
In 2011, about a month after joining the MIT faculty, Feng Zhang attended a talk by Harvard Medical School Professor...
A fundamental question in neuroscience is how neuronal networks and circuits give rise to brain function, as disruptions in these...
