Biotech & pharma

Cells prefer nanodiscs over nanorods

08 Oct 2013

Nanoparticle vaccine offers better protection

By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 08 Oct 2013

Computer scientists develop new approach to sort cells up to 38 times faster

05 Oct 2013

How a ‘mistake’ in a single-cell organism is actually a rewrite essential to life

05 Oct 2013

‘Jekyll-and-Hyde’ protein offers a new route to cancer drugs

30 Sep 2013

Centres throughout the brain work together to make reading possible

26 Sep 2013

New research sheds light on unusual RNA molecules

21 Sep 2013

Discovery helps to unlock brain’s speech-learning mechanism

19 Sep 2013

Protein essential for maintaining beta cell function identified

18 Sep 2013

Evidence shows cancer cells change while moving in the body

16 Sep 2013

Genes linked to being right-or left-handed identified

16 Sep 2013

A secret to making macrophages

16 Sep 2013

A home for the microbiome

14 Sep 2013

Unusual mechanism of DNA synthesis could explain genetic mutations

12 Sep 2013

Researchers determine protein structure for new antimicrobial target

07 Sep 2013

Scientists grow mini human brain in laboratory

29 Aug 2013

Nanosensors could aid drug manufacturing

By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 17 Aug 2013

Chemical engineers find that arrays of carbon nanotubes can detect flaws in drugs and help improve production

Scientists sequence genome of human's closest invertebrate relative

By By Bjorn Carey | 17 Aug 2013

Biophysicists zoom in on pore-forming toxin

16 Aug 2013

Messenger between gut and brain linked to eating behaviour

By By Bill Hathaway | 16 Aug 2013

Distinct brain disorders biologically linked

14 Aug 2013

Protein that accelerates age, brakes cancer

13 Aug 2013

UCLA researcher invents new tools to manage 'information overload' threatening neuroscience

By By Elaine Schmidt | 13 Aug 2013

Study shows microRNAs can trigger lymphomas

13 Aug 2013

How cancer chromosome abnormalities form in living cells

12 Aug 2013