Understanding Chemotherapeutic Drug Targets
Understanding Chemotherapeutic Drug Targets
Dr. Nozomi Ando conducts research on a protein that is essential for DNA synthesis, repair and replication. She explains how this protein is in equilibrium between an active and an inactive form, and how discovering strategies to lock the protein in the inactive ...
Linking Oxidation to DNA Damage
Linking Oxidation to DNA Damage
Professor John Essigmann describes how oxidation reactions in our bodies are both essential for life and responsible for cell damage that can potentially lead to cancer.
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.
Killian Lecture: Joanne Stubbe
Killian Lecture: Joanne Stubbe
Biology and chemistry professor presents the 40th Annual James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award Lecture, titled "Radicals: Your Life Is In Their Hands."
DNA replication with LEGOs
DNA replication with LEGOs
Academy of Notre Dame, Tyngsboro, Mass., students from Ms. Turkovich's biology class created this music video about DNA replication. Turkovich is an MIT Alum. The models are from the original LEGO Education DNA Set.
Decoding A Gene
Decoding A Gene
This video demonstrates the decoding activity for the LEGO channel protein genes. The activity helps to clarify the triplet code prior to teaching transcription and translation. If transcription and translation are not appropriate for your group of students, this decoding of a gene can be the ...
Introduction to LEGO® Proteins - In-Class Demo
Introduction to LEGO® Proteins - In-Class Demo
This video is an introduction to proteins using the LEGO DNA Learning Center Set. Teachers should perform this demonstration in front of the class. Students will learn that the proteins in our bodies are made from the protein we eat. Different proteins can be created ...
Translation
Translation
This video demonstrates translation with the LEGO® DNA Learning Center Set. These models are designed to show both structure and function. Nucleotides pair with each other using the ball and basket joint. The bright orange subunits are the RNA nucleotides, and the large triangular pieces are ...
Transcription
Transcription
This video demonstrates transcription with the LEGO® DNA Learning Center Set. These models are designed to show both structure and function. Nucleotides pair with each other using the ball and basket joint. The gray subunits are the DNA nucleotides and the bright orange subunits are the RNA ...
Self-Portrait With Lab
Self-Portrait With Lab
Video by: Christina Agapakis My first project for 21A.339 Documenting Science Through Video and New Media. A day in the lab, but with much faster editing. My lab works on synthetic biology, engineering cells to produce fuels or as a way to study basic biology and cancer progression in human ...
MITES: Genomics Enrichment Course at the Broad
MITES: Genomics Enrichment Course at the Broad
This summer in Genomics, sixteen MITES students were transformed into research scientists. In groups of four, students researched monogenic disorders such as Early Onset Breast Cancer and sequenced the DNA of several individuals to discover novel human genetic ...
Making Uncommon Connections
Interdisciplinary Research at MIT: Making Uncommon Connections
Alice P. Gast, Vice President for Research and Associate Provost; Rosalind H. Williams, HM, Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology; Sallie Chisholm, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology, MIT; ...