Metabolic engineering
Engineering cells for more efficient biofuel production
February 17, 2013
Yeast research takes a step toward production of alternatives to gasoline.
Turning on key enzyme blocks tumor formation
August 27, 2012
Drug-like molecule restores normal cell metabolism, preventing cancer cells from growing.
Microbe metabolism
January 4, 2012
For the smallest organisms, size determines how microbes spend energy.
How cancer cells get by on a starvation diet
November 21, 2011
New study shows that tumor cells, deprived of glucose, alter their metabolism to use other sources of sustenance.
More than just a pretty flower
November 4, 2010
MIT chemists engineer the periwinkle plant to produce compounds that could become more effective cancer drugs.
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