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“From Controversy to Cure” documentary chronicles the biotech boom in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is home to the greatest concentration of biotechnology companies in the world. Once a salt...

Taking a moonshot at a rare childhood cancer

MIT Professor Angela Koehler is part of a team that has been awarded a federal grant to study one of...

Sixteen grad students named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2020

Sixteen MIT graduate students are among the 2020 cohort of Siebel Scholars hailing from the world’s top graduate programs in...

Students present mechanical engineering projects that have global impact

One event has become a hallmark of nearly every academic conference: the poster session. Posters summarizing research are tacked onto...

Eric Alm and Peter Dedon receive NIH Transformative Research Award

Two MIT faculty members from the School of Engineering, Professor Eric Alm and Professor Peter Dedon, are among the recipients...

American Physical Society honors three MIT professors for physics research

MIT professor of biological engineering James Collins and professors of physics Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Richard Milner have been awarded top...

Biologists build proteins that avoid crosstalk with existing molecules

Inside a living cell, many important messages are communicated via interactions between proteins. For these signals to be accurately relayed,...

Cell stiffness may indicate whether tumors will invade

Engineers at MIT and elsewhere have tracked the evolution of individual cells within an initially benign tumor, showing how the...

Biological engineer Paul Blainey creates new tools to advance biomedical research

Microfluidics — the science of manipulating tiny amounts of fluid through channels — has been widely used in fields such...

Imaging combined with genetic screening of cells enhances genomic discoveries

The following press release was issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Scientists routinely use genetic screens to...

Study reveals how mucus tames microbes

More than 200 square meters of our bodies — including the digestive tract, lungs, and urinary tract — are lined...

SelenBio on NetCapital

SelenBio, a biotechnology company with a post-money valuation of $20.7 million, is raising funds on NetCapital. The company develops an antibacterial technology that...

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