Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs I
Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs I
03/28/2011 1:30 PM KresgeHazel Sive, Professor of Biology and Associate Dean, MIT School of Science; Susan L. Lindquist, Professor of Biology, MIT; Sangeeta N. Bhatia, SM '93 PhD '97, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Professor of Electrical Engineering ...
Cancer Stem Cells and Malignant Progression
Cancer Stem Cells and Malignant Progression
Robert Weinberg - Whitehead Institute
Cancer Research in the Genomic Era
Cancer Research in the Genomic Era
06/07/2006 2:30 PM 46-3002Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Member, Whitehead InstituteDescription: Eric Lander likens the current age of biological discovery to the days of great ocean-going exploration. After the world was mapped, ...
Cancer Deconstructed - 2013 Image Award Winner
Cancer Deconstructed - 2013 Image Award Winner
Vasilena Gocheva explains the science behind her striking image, Cancer Deconstructed: Investigating the Role of Non-Cancerous Cells in a Lung Tumor. Vasilena's image was selected as a winner of the 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards. See all the winners ...
C. elegans responding to a touch stimulus
C. elegans responding to a touch stimulus
C. elegans responding to a touch stimulus
Profile: Bob Weinberg
Bob Weinberg on his lab's research
The Weinberg lab is known for its discoveries of the first human oncogene — the ras oncogene that causes normal cells to form tumors, and the isolation of the first known tumor suppressor gene — the Rb gene.
BLOSSOMS - ATP: The Fuel of Life
BLOSSOMS - ATP: The Fuel of Life
Teacher: Christian R. SchubertSummary: The goal of this lesson is to introduce students who are interested in human biology and biochemistry to the subtleties of energy metabolism (typically not presented in standard biology and biochemistry textbooks) through the lens of ATP as the primary ...
Biomaterials and How They Will Change our Lives
Biomaterials and How They Will Change our Lives
03/8/2002, 3:30PM, 34-101 Robert S. Langer Jr. On February 19, 2002, Dr. Langer received the 2002 Charles Stark Draper Prize for inventing medical drug delivery technologies that prolong lives and ease suffering for millions every year. This is Dr. Langer's first MIT ...
Biological Large Scale Integration
Biological Large Scale Integration
02/23/2007 4:00 PM 32-123Stephen Quake, Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford UniversityDescription: Though Stephen Quake's research is confined to the smallest of scales, his achievements have already made a large impact on the study of biology. Quake's area of ...
Bioengineering at MIT: Building Bridges (Part Two)
Bioengineering at MIT: Building Bridges Between the Sciences, Engineering ...
Glycomics, the study of sugars' role in living systems, is a relative newcomer to the revolution in molecular biology. In fact, Ram Sasisekharan remembers how colleagues told him "not to work on carbohydrates — that it was useless."
Bioengineering at MIT: Building Bridges Between the ...
Bioengineering at MIT: Building Bridges Between the Sciences, Engineering ...
Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Ford Professor and Head of the Department of Biological Engineering, MIT; Linda G. Griffith, Professor, Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering ; Angela Belcher, Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and ...
Beyond the Headlines: Making Sense of the Stem Cell Debate
Beyond the Headlines: Making Sense of the Stem Cell Debate
11/20/2001 6"120Dr. Claudia Mickelson, Chair, Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee; National Institutes of Health and Biosafety Officer, MIT; Dr. George Daley, PhD '89, MIT/Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Mass General Hospital ; Dr. Thomas Shannon, ...
Barbara Imperiali
Barbara Imperiali
Career discussion with Barbara Imperiali, Class of 1922 Professor of Chemistry, and Professor of Biology at MIT.
Bacterial Supernova - 2013 Image Award Winner
Bacterial Supernova - 2013 Image Award Winner
Tal Danino explains the science behind his incredible image, Bacterial Supernova: Programming E. coli to Release Drugs into a Tumor. Tal's image was selected as a winner of the 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards. See all the winners ...
B cells in a magnetic field
B cells in a magnetic field
The movement of B cells that carry magnetic nanoparticles in tiny polymer "backpacks" can be controlled by a magnetic field.
Autism: What Do We Know, What Do We Need?
Autism: What Do We Know, What Do We Need?
"I'll give you the 30,000 foot view of autism."
Aseem Ansari - Symposium in Memory of H. Gobind Khorana
Aseem Ansari - 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: Aseem Ansari, University of Wisconsin
Artificial Life: A global good or evil? CIS audits the ...
Artificial Life: A global good or evil?
CIS audits the ...
The Center's series Audit of the Conventional Wisdom continues with a look at the recent discovery out of the Venter laboratory: artificial life. Is this a global good or evil? Ken Oye, director of the Center's Program on Emerging Technologies and associate professor ...
Are We as Crazy as Mad Cows?
Are We as Crazy as Mad Cows?
03/29/2004 12:00 PM McGovernSusan L. Lindquist, Professor of Biology, MITDescription: When proteins in our body work properly, we can see, smell, consume and digest food, grow muscle and brain cells. But when these infinitely useful biological building blocks fail, the most pernicious ...
An Introductory Science Curriculum for 21st Century ...
An Introductory Science Curriculum for 21st Century Biologists
01/09/2004 1:00 PM Wong AuditoriumDavid Botstein, Director and Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University Description: How will biology move beyond the Human Genome Project and the task of reducing ...