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MIT News: Prof Linda Griffith and visiting scholar Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi launched her appointment as a visiting scholar in the Center for Gynepathology Research. Learn More
MIT News: Prof Roger Kamm
Kamm Lab have designed a microfluidic chip in which they produced the first 3-D human tissue model of the interface between motor neurons and muscle fibers, replicating the motor neuron connections affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Learn More
MIT News: PhD student Zijay Tang
Tang is working on engineering living materials that can sense aspects of their environment and relay what they’ve sensed back to researchers. Learn More
New York Times: Prof James Collins & Prof Timothy Lu
BE faculty are retooling bacteria to cure disease. Learn More
MIT News: James J. Collins
To help students gain a better grasp of biological concepts, Collins Lab researchers have designed new educational kits that can be used to perform experiments that produce glowing proteins, scents, or other easily observed phenomena, Learn More
Welcome, Prof Bryan Bryson.
Prof. Bryson’s research program will center on systems biology approaches to infectious disease, primarily tuberculosis. Learn More

Microbiome

The Center for Microbiome Informatics & Therapeutics brings together clinicians and researchers to tackle microbiome-related diseases... LEARN MORE

Engineering Living Systems

EBICS' mission is to create a new scientific discipline for building living, multi-cellular machines that solve real world problems in health, security, and the environment. LEARN MORE

Open Faculty Positions

The MIT Department of Biological Engineering invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions in Molecular/Cell Biophysics and Comparative Medicine. LEARN MORE

Seminar

October 25 | 4:00PM |
32-141
Brad Bernstein (Harvard)
"How Misfolded Chromosomes Cause Cancer"
 
 
 
 
 
 
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