In a university lab, an AI system generated millions of novel molecules to fight drug-resistant infections. And they’re ...

What if our cells could be programmed to detect an imminent heart attack and warn us in time to get to the doctor before it happens? Or perhaps they could sense falling blood sugar in diabetics and ...

Northwestern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), recognized leaders in the growing field of synthetic biology, recently received significant grant awards from the Army for ...

Matthew Vander Heiden, an MIT biology professor and pioneer in cancer cell metabolism research, will take the reins at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research as its new director. Vander ...

Frank Schmitt needed more squid. Though progress continued to inch forward at the “squid club,” as his MIT biology lab was affectionately called, there never seemed to be enough squid to get ...

Chris A. Kaiser, professor and former chairman of the Department of Biology at MIT, has been named the college’s new provost. Kaiser succeeds L. Rafael Reif, who recently was appointed MIT’s president ...

One day last October, MIT biology professor Matthew Vander Heiden showed up in one of his trademark plaid shirts to teach his undergraduate course on cancer biology. As usual, he peppered his lecture ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Five months after its founding director, Tyler Jacks ...

A group of AP Biology students at Waltham High School and teacher Marisa Maddox created a Synthetic Biology Club this year in order to enter a competition that took place recently at MIT. The students ...

No one is sure why it works. MIT Biology Professor Leonard P. Guarente discovered in 2000 that calorie restriction activates the silenced information regulator (SIR2) gene, which has the apparent ...