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Study takes aim at opportunistic fungal pathogensAn 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 prizesThe 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 eventsEngineers 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 oceanAn 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 brainMIT 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 originsAn 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 proteinsInteractions 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 playA 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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