Engineering a New Attack on Disease
Engineering a New Attack on Disease
05/10/2004 12:00 PM McGovernRichard A. Young, Member, Whitehead Institute; Professor of Biology, MITDescription: Out of a world population of 6 billion, 57 million people die each year. And while we have gained 20 years in life expectancy since World War 2, diseases like HIV have taken a toll ...
EBICS - Dr. Robert Langer Distinguished Lecture
EBICS - Dr. Robert Langer Distinguished Lecture
Dr. Robert Langer of the MIT Department of Chemical EngineeringEngineering of Integrated Materials and Cell Based SystemsI will start by discussing how I - as a chemical engineer - initially got involved in the interface between biology and engineering, which would ...
Do-it-Yourself Biology @ Sprout
Do-it-Yourself Biology @ Sprout
Video by: Jessica Perez Do-it-Yourself Biology is an innovative group dedicated to creating open source tools that allow anyone to perform sophisticated biological analyses. They meet regularly at SPROUT, a non-profit located in Somerville, MA with a broader mission to make science a part of ...
Do"It"Yourself Biology
Do"It"Yourself Biology
01/14/2009 6:00 PM MuseumNatalie Kuldell, Instructor, MIT Department; Reshma Shetty, Ph D 08Description: Inspired by the vast potential of bioengineering, ordinary people are seeking their inner Frankenstein -- doctor, not monster. Two speakers who know their way around Petri dish and beaker ...
DNA Mutation, Repair and the Environment
DNA Mutation, Repair and the Environment
06/07/2006 10:00 AM 46-3002Leona Samson, Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences and Professor of Toxicology, and; Biological Engineering;; Ellison American Cancer Society Professor; Description: Forget cigarette smoking (well, not completely). The really bad news, says Leona ...
Dieter Soll - Symposium in Memory of H. Gobind Khorana
Dieter Soll - 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: Dieter Söll, Yale University
Designing an Edible Forest Garden
Designing an Edible Forest Garden
Video by: Alice Lee Wellesley College students and faculty redefine what a garden is, by creating an "edible forest."
Delivering large molecules to cells through tiny holes in ...
Delivering large molecules to cells through tiny holes in membranes
Researchers from MIT have now found a safe and efficient way to get large molecules through the cell membrane, by squeezing the cells through a narrow constriction that opens up tiny, temporary holes in the membrane.
David Farrens - Symposium in Memory of H. Gobind Khorana
David Farrens - 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: David Farrens, Oregon Health Sciences University
Darwin and Lincoln Birthday Forum
Darwin and Lincoln Birthday Forum
Marking the birthday of two champions of human equality, both born on Feb. 12, 1809
Dan Oprian - Symposium in Memory of H. Gobind Khorana
Dan Oprian - 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: Dan Oprian, Brandeis University
Conversation with Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Conversation with Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Lydia Villa-Komaroff grew up in a large Mexican-American family in New Mexico. She received her PhD from the MIT Dept. of Biology, where she worked with David Baltimore and Harvey Lodish on Polio virus. She did her postdoctoral training at Harvard where she also worked with Walter Gilbert on ...
Conquering Cancer: Opening Remarks Reflections on Major ...
Conquering Cancer: Opening Remarks Reflections on Major Milestones in ...
03/16/2011 8:30 AM KresgeDavid A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Tyler Jacks, Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and ...
Computational and Systems Biology at MIT
Computational and Systems Biology at MIT
01/09/2004 2:45PM Wong AuditoriumPeter Sorger, Director, Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi),MIT ; Description: Once the young field of systems biology really picks up steam, there will be reams of difficult new data to sort through, warns Peter Sorger. As scientists move away ...
Computational and Systems Approaches to Cancer
Computational and Systems Approaches to Cancer
06/08/2006 8:00 AM 46-3002Michael Yaffe, Professor of Biology, MITDescription: Early on in his lecture, Michael Yaffe serves up an amazing fact: If the distance between each DNA base pair were one foot apart, then each time a cell divided, it would have to copy 568 ...
Change Your Mind: Memory and Disease
Change Your Mind: Memory and Disease
12/01/2005 2:30 PM picower atrium 3rd floorIra Flatow, Host/Executive Producer, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday ; Thomas Insel, Director, National Institute of Mental Health; Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator; Kerry Resler, ...
Cellular Injections: 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards Winner
Cellular Injections: 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards Winner
Alex Shalek explains the science behind his striking image, "Cellular Injections: Using Nanowires to Investigate the Causes of Leukemia." Alex's image was selected as a winner of the 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards.
Cells in Living Color
Cells in Living Color
The two upper panels of this video show different views of a cell while the lower left shows the presence of bubbles, called vesicles, within it. On the lower right, the thin petals can be see in cross-section as they form, ripple over the cell, and subside. Built from 40,000 images, this ...
Cell division and growth rate
Cell division and growth rate
MIT researchers answer a longstanding question in biology: How do cells know when to progress through the cell cycle?
Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs IV
Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs IV
03/29/2011 3:30 PM KresgeKatrin Wehrheim, Associate Professor of Mathematics, MIT; Sallie Chisholm, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology, MIT; Nancy Kanwisher, '80, PhD '86, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, ...