How Scientists Make Heart Cells
How Scientists Make Heart Cells
CDI scientists explain how they made David Ewing Duncan's beating heart cells in a petri dish and why it's a significant feat.
How nutrients spread in a turbulent sea
How nutrients spread in a turbulent sea
A computer simulation shows the way a patch of nutrient material is pulled apart into swirling filaments by turbulence in the water, eventually dissolving away completely.
How emergence drives the (science and) ethics of synthetic ...
How emergence drives the (science and) ethics of synthetic biology
Mark Bedau delivers the EBICS Distinguished Lecture
How Did We Get Here?
How Did We Get Here?
Robert Weinberg plots the 200-year course of cancer research, finding neglected byways, wrong turns, and astonishing advances.
How Cancer Begins
How Cancer Begins
09/22/2003 McGovern AuditoriumRobert A. Weinberg, '64, PhD '69, Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research Department of BiologyDescription: If you're worried about getting cancer, do yourself a favor: steer clear of red meat and rich foods, and avoid ...
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
05/11/2010 6:00 PM MuseumSubra Suresh, ScD '81, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; ; Monica Diez"Silva, Post"doctoral fellow, DMSE; David Quinn, Graduate student, Mechanical EngineeringDescription: Malaria has afflicted mankind from time immemorial, confounding many ...
How Artificial Intelligence Learns From Biological ...
How Artificial Intelligence Learns From Biological Intelligence (MIT ...
How artificial intelligence learns from biological intelligence An introduction to computational neuroscience. For the MIT K-12 Outreach pilot study. By Evan Ehrenberg
Hikoya Hayatsu - Symposium in Memory of H. Gobind Khorana
Hikoya Hayatsu - Symposium in Memory of H. Gobind Khorana
Memorial service and symposium in honor of H. Gobind Khorana, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry emeritus. Speaker: Hikoya Hayatsu, Okayama University, Japan
Hibur Lecture, 5/2/05
Hibur Lecture, 5/2/05
Video conference with Technion, May 2, 2005, featuring Professor Robert Langer.
Hans-Joachim Fritz - Symposium in Memory of H. Gobind ...
Hans-Joachim Fritz - Symposium in Memory of H. Gobind Khorana
Memorial service and symposium in honor of H. Gobind Khorana, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry emeritus. Speaker: Hans-Joachim Fritz, University of Goettingen, Germany
Kendall Square Boom!
From WGBH's 'Greater Boston': Kendall Square Boom!
MIT's Phillip Sharp on Kendall Square's growth over the last four decades.
Frank Gertler discusses Mena
Frank Gertler discusses Mena, new cancer test possibilities
MIT biology professor Frank Gertler discusses the Mena protein, and a test developed with two colleagues that could help doctors precisely identify which breast cancer patients should receive aggressive therapy.
Form from the Formless
Form from the Formless: The Awesome Power of the Embryo
Hazel Sive, Professor of Biology and Associate Dean, MIT School of Science Description: How does a single cell become a complex organism? The fascination and challenge of this question, says Hazel Sive, "drives me out of bed each day, makes me work long hours and keeps ...
Feel the Pulse - 2013 Image Award Winner
Feel the Pulse - 2013 Image Award Winner
Kwabena Badu-Nkansah explains the science behind his beautiful image, Feel the Pulse: Smooth Muscle Cells Respond to Stretching Forces. Kwabena image was selected as a winner of the 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards. See all the winners at http://ki-galleries.mit.edu.
Expand Your Mind: Getting a Grasp on Consciousness
Expand Your Mind: Getting a Grasp on Consciousness
12/01/2005 4:05 PM picower atrium 3rd floorIra Flatow, Host/Executive Producer, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday ; Christof Koch, Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology, California Institute of Technology; Patricia Churchland, ...
Evolution: From the Fossil Record to Genomic Revolution ...
Evolution: From the Fossil Record to Genomic Revolution Probing the Origin ...
06/09/2001 KresgeCharles Marshall, Professor of Geology and Biology; Curator, Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; Dr. Maria T. Zuber, E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and ...
Environmental Health Sciences: Bridging the Gap Between ...
Environmental Health Sciences: Bridging the Gap Between Genetics and ...
Researchers at MIT's Center for Environmental Health Sciences probe the relationship between genetics and environment in the development of illnesses such as lung cancer. A video produced by AMPS/MIT Libraries for the MIT Museum's classroom/exhibit, "Learning Lab: The ...
Engineering Solutions to the Problems of Cancer
Engineering Solutions to the Problems of Cancer
03/16/2011 10:45 AM KresgePaula T. Hammond, Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT; Sangeeta N. Bhatia, SM '93 PhD '97, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT; Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor's ...