Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Creating self-fertilizing crops to help address climate change
Roughly a quarter of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States are a product of agriculture. Fertilizer production and ...
Face mask that not only protects against COVID — but diagnoses it as well? ‘Next-gen wearable biosensors’ are as sensitive as standard lab tests
Engineers at MIT and Harvard University have designed a novel face mask that can diagnose the wearer with Covid-19 within ...
CRISPRoff: Gene editing epigenetic method allows researchers to turn most genes in the human genome on and off without altering DNA sequences
Over the past decade, the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system has revolutionized genetic engineering, allowing scientists to make targeted changes to ...
‘Disease-cancelling technology’: New drugs may act more like noise-control headphones
Rather than focusing on the DNA and proteins involved in a disease, Immuneering focuses on disease-associated gene signaling and expression ...
Precision (plant) medicine: Biotech drug delivery system fights diseases pesticides can’t control
A new method developed by engineers at MIT may offer a starting point for delivering life-saving treatments to plants ravaged ...
MIT’s Timothy Lu’s gene therapy innovation: Programming cells to fight infection
In high school and college, Timothy Lu spent a lot of time programming computers. But as his college graduation approached, ...
Video: MIT scientists create plants that glow in the dark
Imagine that instead of switching on a lamp when it gets dark, you could read by the light of a ...
Cracking cancer: Could treatment lie in harnessing immune system defense mechanism?
For the first time, MIT biologists have now identified a mechanism that the immune system uses to eliminate genetically imbalanced ...
Political right not alone in scientific illiteracy: Left disregards science on GMOs, vaccines
It is tremendously ironic that the political left, which frequently attacks the right’s denial of evolution, is much more likely ...