Bioengineering
Bioengineering
Feng Zhang named 2016 Tang Prize laureate
Feng Zhang, a core institute member of the Broad Institute, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at...
Department of Mechanical Engineering wins New England Emmy Award for “Hope Regenerated”
The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) multimedia team has been recognized with a New England Emmy Award in the...
Biofuels: Too early or too late?
Though biofuels have been a part of energy research for decades, their position in the clean energy portfolios of the...
Center for Environmental Health Sciences selects 2016 poster winners
The Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) at MIT held its annual poster session on May 4 in the Walker...
The tenured engineers of 2016
The School of Engineering has announced that seven members of its faculty have been granted tenure by MIT. “These newly...
Grant funds innovation in teacher education
The Teaching and Learning Innovation Grants (TLIG) program provides seed funding for MIT community members to bring new ideas for...
New CRISPR system for targeting RNA
Researchers from MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, as well as the National Institutes of Health, Rutgers...
Fruit flies could be key to fighting cervical cancer caused by human papillomavirus
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections in the United States and has been identified...
Natural scale caterpillar soft robot is powered and controlled with light
Credit: Source: FUW Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, using the liquid crystal elastomer technology,...
Regenerative bandage heals diabetic wounds faster
An immunofluorescence image shows regenerated dermal tissue (in pink) in wounds treated with Ameer’s bandage.At some point in their lives,...
Down to the wire: ONR researchers and new bacteria
ARLINGTON, Va.–Scientists sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have genetically modified a common soil bacteria to create electrical...
Researchers have developed a new class of artificial proteins
In the journal, Nature Communications, a team of Danish researchers reports that they have developed a new class of artificial...
UH researchers are pioneering tools for heart regeneration
Credit: Courtesy of Yu Liu HOUSTON, Aug. 8, 2016 – Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the...
Self-cleaning, anti-reflective, microorganism-resistant coatings
Coatings or paints are materials applied to different surfaces basically for decorative and protective purposes. Yet today the market for...