Biotech & pharma
A secret to making macrophages
16 Sep 2013
A home for the microbiome
14 Sep 2013
Scientists grow mini human brain in laboratory
29 Aug 2013
Nanosensors could aid drug manufacturing
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 17 Aug 2013
Chemical engineers find that arrays of carbon nanotubes can detect flaws in drugs and help improve production
Scientists sequence genome of human's closest invertebrate relative
By By Bjorn Carey | 17 Aug 2013
Biophysicists zoom in on pore-forming toxin
16 Aug 2013
Messenger between gut and brain linked to eating behaviour
By By Bill Hathaway | 16 Aug 2013
Distinct brain disorders biologically linked
14 Aug 2013
Protein that accelerates age, brakes cancer
13 Aug 2013
UCLA researcher invents new tools to manage 'information overload' threatening neuroscience
By By Elaine Schmidt | 13 Aug 2013
Study shows microRNAs can trigger lymphomas
13 Aug 2013
New inhibitor blocks the oncogenic protein KRAS
10 Aug 2013
Making connections in the eye to map the brain's wiring
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 10 Aug 2013
An MIT neuroscientist is attempting to map 100 billion neurons, in the human brain connected to each other in networks that allow us to interpret the world around us, plan for the future, and control our actions and movements that could help scientists learn how we each become our unique selves
Efficient model for generating human induced pluripotent stem cells developed
02 Aug 2013
The human iPSCs are typically artificially derived from a non-pluripotent adult cell, such as a skin cell, for use in human stem cell therapies
Controlling genes with light
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 30 Jul 2013
New technology to help plants fix nitrogen from air
27 Jul 2013
Researchers at the University of Nottingham have developed a unique method of putting nitrogen-fixing bacteria into the cells of plant roots
Humans, birds have brains that are wired in a similar way.
27 Jul 2013
Human may have more in common with a pigeon than we realise, reveals new research, imparting a new twist to the term 'bird brain'.
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