Inspired by rare genetic disease, researchers develop a compound that can protect kidney cells from death and restore kidney function in multiple animal models of progressive kidney disease.... Read more
A personal cancer treatment vaccine that targets distinctive “neoantigens” on tumor cells has been shown to stimulate a potent, safe, and highly specific immune anti-tumor response in melano... Read more
A team of scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science at MIT, and the Wyss I... Read more
A team spanning Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, Texas Children’s Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed a new way to sequence genomes, which can assem... Read more
A novel, inexpensive method for detecting the Zika virus could help slow spread of outbreak, and potentially other future pandemic diseases An international, multi-institutional team of rese... Read more
Synthetic biology technique could make it safer to put engineered microbes to work outside the lab Many research teams are developing genetically modified bacteria that could one day travel... Read more
Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT have engineered changes to the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system that... Read more
In the fall of 1999, a young chemical engineer named Todd Zion left his job at Eastman Kodak to enroll in the Ph.D. program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While looking for a... Read more
Researchers identify compounds that help liver cells grow outside the body. Prometheus, the mythological figure who stole fire from the gods, was punished for this theft by being bound to a... Read more
DNA sequencing is becoming both faster and cheaper. Now, it is also becoming tinier. A British company said on Friday that by the end of the year it would begin selling a disposable g... Read more