Biology
Ruth Lehmann elected as director of Whitehead Institute
The Whitehead Institute board of directors today announced the selection of Ruth Lehmann, a world-renowned developmental...
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Study finds hub linking movement and motivation in the brain
September 18, 2019Our everyday lives rely on planned movement through the environment to achieve goals. A new study...
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Mehrdad Jazayeri and Hazel Sive awarded 2019 School of Science teaching prizes
September 17, 2019The School of Science has announced that the recipients of the school’s 2019 Teaching Prizes for...
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Understanding genetic circuits and genome organization
September 11, 2019MIT’s Department of Biology welcomed two new assistant professors in recent months: Pulin Li began at...
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A summer at the MSRP-Bio reveals connections between proteins, people, and passions
September 2, 2019Meucci Ilunga seems to know something about everything. He’s a videographer who’s branching out into podcasting....
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Comparing primate vocalizations
September 2, 2019The utterances of Old World monkeys, some of our primate cousins, may be more sophisticated than...
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Using CRISPR to program gels with new functions
August 21, 2019The CRISPR genome-editing system is best-known for its potential to correct disease-causing mutations and add new...
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Study links certain metabolites to stem cell function in the intestine
August 21, 2019MIT biologists have discovered an unexpected effect of a ketogenic, or fat-rich, diet: They showed that...
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