A federal complaint filed Monday has requested that an investigation be opened into two graduate-level university-sponsored ...

What if our cells could be programmed to detect an imminent heart attack and warn us in time to get to the doctor before it happens? Or perhaps they could sense falling blood sugar in diabetics and ...

Northwestern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), recognized leaders in the growing field of synthetic biology, recently received significant grant awards from the Army for ...

Cancer has a talent for hiding in plain sight, cloaking itself in sugary molecules that convince the immune system to stand ...

We have smart phones, smart cars and now, with the advent of a new class of “living medicines,” we’re on the verge of having smart therapeutics. Synlogic, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based MIT spin-out ...

Chris A. Kaiser, professor and former chairman of the Department of Biology at MIT, has been named the college’s new provost. Kaiser succeeds L. Rafael Reif, who recently was appointed MIT’s president ...

Synthetic biology has come a long way in the last two years. It is no longer dismissed as just another overhyped offshoot of the Human Genome Project, but rather is recognized as a transforming ...

Over the last few years, there’s been an explosion of information in biology. The mapping of the human genome gave biologists unprecedented detail about some 30,000 to 40,000 genes. Efforts are also ...