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Study takes aim at opportunistic fungal pathogens

An international team, including researchers from the Broad Institute, decoded and analyzed the genomes of fungal species that cause bloodstream infections. Their findings offer some initial clues about what makes some fungi pathogenic and others not. June 18, 2009

CEHS awards annual research prizes

The Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) at MIT held its annual poster session on May 27 in Morss Hall in Walker Memorial. The session highlighted the work of 18 of the center's affiliated labs from eight MIT departments and featured more than 50 posters. June 2, 2009

Engineered circuits can count cellular events

Engineers have designed cells that can count and "remember" cellular events, using simple circuits in which a series of genes are activated in a specific order. Such circuits could serve as biosensors that count exposures to different toxins. May 28, 2009

Small RNAs yield great amounts of data from ocean

An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples in a natural setting may make it possible finally to learn on a broad scale how microbial communities living at different ocean depths and regions respond to environmental stimuli. May 14, 2009

Making waves in the brain

MIT researchers and colleagues have found a way to induce gamma waves -- high-frequency brain waves thought to be crucial to consciousness, attention, learning and memory -- by shining laser light directly onto the brains of mice. April 26, 2009

Analysis knocks down theory of cell origins

An analysis by researchers at MIT and Boston University has undercut a theory about the origin of a basic structure within animal and plant cells. April 22, 2009

Making picky proteins

Interactions between proteins underlie nearly everything that happens inside a cell. MIT researchers have developed a model that can be used to design new protein interactions and could help scientists create proteins for use in developing new drugs. April 15, 2009

The games microbes play

A team of MIT researchers has used game theory to show how cooperative behaviors in yeast can be compatible with evolutionary theory. April 6, 2009

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