Biotech & pharma
Pill could help humans live longer, healthier
01 Mar 2014
Chemical chaperones help proteins do their jobs
27 Feb 2014
Research in the News: Tiny ‘garbage collectors’ help control brain development
By By Bill Hathaway | 20 Feb 2014
Scarring cells turned to beating muscle
14 Feb 2014
Dental study provides wealth of stem cell details
By By Beth Newcomb | 08 Feb 2014
A microchip for metastasis
By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 08 Feb 2014
Researchers design a microfluidic platform to see how cancer cells invade specific organs
Protein that culls damaged eggs identified, infertility reversed
By By Krishna Ramanujan | 05 Feb 2014
Autistic brains create more information at rest
03 Feb 2014
Main intestinal disease bacteria to be sequenced
03 Feb 2014
Cell cycle speed is key to making aging cells young again
By By Bill Hathway | 01 Feb 2014
In the brain, timing is everything
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 25 Jan 2014
Neuroscientists have now discovered how two neural circuits in the brain work together to link memories of events that occur one after the other.
Drug strategy blocks a leading driver of cancer
By By Jeffrey Norris | 20 Jan 2014
Scientists develop new approach to study how genetic variants affect gene expression
By By Kim Irwin | 20 Jan 2014
Molecular nano-spies to make light work of disease detection
16 Jan 2014
A world of cloak-and-dagger pharmaceuticals has come a step closer with the development of stealth compounds programmed to spring into action when they receive the signal.