Bioengineering
Bioengineering
Solar energy from discarded car batteries
MIT researchers have developed a simple procedure for making a promising type of solar cell using lead recovered from discarded...
Four MIT faculty named 2015 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Four MIT faculty members have been named 2015 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI): Angela M. Belcher is...
April 12 symposium: Take an immersive, intellectual journey across campus
When MIT moved from Boston to Cambridge in 1916, it built a new campus designed to foster collaboration across disparate...
Camilo Ruiz named 2016 Gates Cambridge Scholar
Camilo Ruiz, an MIT senior majoring in biological engineering, is one of 35 American students to be awarded this year’s...
Reprogramming gut bacteria as “living therapeutics”
An MIT spinout, Synlogic, is aiming to create a new class of medicines, by re-programming bacteria found in the gut...
Feng Zhang receives 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award
Feng Zhang, a core institute member of the Broad Institute, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at...
Toward a better understanding of the brain
In 2011, about a month after joining the MIT faculty, Feng Zhang attended a talk by Harvard Medical School Professor...
An ace on the court and in the lab
MIT senior Ava Soleimany knows the value of determination in the lab, and on the tennis court. The major in...
Biobarrier explorer and dark matter theorist win MIT’s prestigious junior faculty award
Jesse Thaler, associate professor in the Department of Physics, and Katharina Ribbeck, the Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of Tissue...
James Collins appointed 2016 Allen Distinguished Investigator
James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science at the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, professor...
Five from MIT win 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, the premier graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants,...
Microbiome genes on the move
The word “culture” typically refers to a group’s shared heritage — such as its customs, cuisine, music, and language —...
Michael Mitchell wins Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface
Michael J. Mitchell, a National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein postdoc in the lab of Robert Langer at the...
Mapping molecular neighborhoods
At first glance, it seems counterintuitive. To learn more about how cells go awry causing disease, it seems logical to...