Drug makes tumors more susceptible to chemo
Compound that knocks out a DNA repair pathway enhances cisplatin treatment and helps prevent drug-resistance.
Compound that knocks out a DNA repair pathway enhances cisplatin treatment and helps prevent drug-resistance.
Sophomore Noopur Ranganathan's work empowers those with visual and auditory impairments to take communication into their own hands.
Fluorescent tagging system can expedite the process of designing genes and personalizing medicine.
Through computing, senior and Marshall Scholar Anna Sappington seeks answers to biological questions.
Grantees will spend the 2019-2020 academic year pursuing research and teaching opportunities abroad.
Book by MIT professor examines the circuitous history behind the investigation of cancer as a contagious illness.
A study of prostate cancer finds “aneuploid” tumors are more likely to be lethal than tumors with normal chromosome numbers.
Convergence research at MIT and beyond seeks new solutions for global challenges.
Algorithm stitches multiple datasets into a single “panorama,” which could provide new insights for medical and biological studies.
Mutation in disease model flies undermines maintenance of key ion balance.
Data-sampling method makes “sketches” of unwieldy biological datasets while still capturing the full diversity of cell types.
Faculty members Edward Boyden, Paula Hammond, and Aviv Regev recognized for “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
Eight biology contestants get one slide and three minutes to explain their research and impress their listeners.
Drawn to MIT by its “amazing women who were doing science,” Professor Laura Kiessling explores sugar-protein interactions that influence cell behavior.
The substance that bathes tumors in the body is quite different from the medium used to grow cancer cells in the lab, biologists report.