By exploring how bacteria hijack cell functions, Associate Professor Rebecca Lamason hopes to learn more about how host cells carry out those functions.

To remember the longtime professor, lab members, alumni, colleagues, and other well-wishers gathered with members of his family in MIT Building 46 and online.

Documentary shines a powerful light on a painful disease that affects 265 million women, highlights efforts at MIT’s Center for Gynepathology Research to study the disease and find treatments.

Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.

By tracking over 1 million cells, researchers created a detailed map of embryonic development in mice. It could provide development and disease insights.

Professor Michael Yaffe and six MIT alumni are honored for their outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

MIT researchers showed that the APOE4 gene variant suppresses molecular signaling needed for oligodendrocytes to myelinate neurons and also demonstrated a proof-of-concept fix.

A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.

Associate Professor David Des Marais studies how plants interact with their surroundings and adapt over time.

Some tumor cells develop resistance by amplifying the KRAS gene, while others change their tumor type, MIT researchers have found.

MIT chemical engineers found a way to rapidly produce lipid nanoparticles of varying sizes, which could make it easier to develop new vaccines and therapeutics.

They also found that obesity may put patients at higher risk for activation of the pathway. Drugs that block the pathway may help prevent metastasis.

This summer, BSG-MSRP-Bio student Marina Milea investigated how lung cancers become resistant to targeted therapies, gaining hands-on research experience in the Jacks Lab at the Koch Institute.

Tracking down senescent cells, which accumulate as we age, could help diagnose age-related disorders and guide researchers working on new treatments.

A new study reveals insights into populations of neurons affected by Huntington’s disease, schizophrenia, addiction, and other disorders.

The Institute welcomes its first cohort of QMIT Fellows this fall to advance interdisciplinary quantum research.

New research offers support for the possibility that complex biological molecules could exist in the highly acidic environment of Venus’s cloud layer.

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

This discovery points toward new combination strategies against cancer, and may explain the iron buildup seen in disorders such as early-onset Parkinson’s disease.

A new study by Whitehead Institute researchers identifies how the widespread parasite Toxoplasma gondii survives in crowded environments in infected cells, which helps it persist in long-lasting brain cysts.

Using a modular kit, the MIT Edgerton Center is bringing a hands-on biology curriculum to Massachusetts’ second-largest school district.

A study of worms finds a protein that helps shape the structure of the genome is critical for establishing the identity of some neurons.

The new framework could streamline the design process of robotic grippers or aerospace components that exhibit complex behaviors found in nature.

MIT researchers discovered a cellular dance that may offer clues to the development of cancer, asthma, and other diseases.

Derived from patient tumor samples and available to researchers around the world, the cells will aid the development of new cancer treatments.

Tonegawa made landmark discoveries about how the immune system generates antibody diversity and how the brain forms memories.

MIT researchers have found that a ketogenic high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet fuels the growth of intestinal tumors.

In certain species of bacteria, the answer lies in shielding RNA transcripts from a quality-control factor called Rho. Understanding the requirements for expressible sequences is critical for expression engineering of therapeutic agents.

Cell biologist Whitney Henry and immunologist Harikesh Wong will receive four years of flexible funding to advance early-career research on ferroptosis and immune decision-making.

Karen O’Leary, lab associate and acting supervisor in the Glassware Sterilization Facility (a.k.a. “the kitchen”), has become a cornerstone of the department’s operations.

Ranking at the top for the 15th year in a row, the Institute also places first in 12 subject areas.

From Boston to Moscow and across the U.S., Harriet Latham Robinson SM ’61, PhD ’65 has balanced an exciting career at the forefront of molecular biology with family, friends, and adventure.

Biology PhD student Giselle Valdes studies stem cell regeneration while encouraging aspiring students and researchers.

Faculty member Shu-Heng Shao, in addition to four MIT alumni, are honored by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.

The new design could offer a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants.

MIT biologists find highly concentrated droplets can help cells keep enzymes organized and control growth signals.

Six MIT faculty, along with 10 additional alumni, are recognized by their peers for their outstanding contributions to research in the natural and social sciences.

Computational neuroscientist Sven Dorkenwald and cell biologist Whitney Henry, along with two MIT alumni, are recognized for their exceptional early-career research contributions.

Nearly 100 MIT students participate in a buddy program that assists Boston-area residents.

His studies have shed light on the assembly instructions that govern ribosomes, the critical protein-building machines of the cell.

By monitoring these chromosomal structures over many timescales, MIT researchers found that chromatin helps bring genes closer to their regulatory elements.

When genes are transcribed, they suppress or activate their neighbors, coupling expression between the two genes.

A new study reveals cellular pathways that appear to underlie some differences in physical fitness.

MIT researchers leveraged a surprise discovery to devise a faster and more precise biomedical imaging technique.

The prestigious honor society honors four MIT faculty and 13 additional MIT alumni among more than 250 new members.