Delivering vaccines directly to the lungs can boost immune responses to respiratory infections or lung cancer, study finds.
By adding weak linkers to a polymer network, chemists dramatically enhanced the material’s resistance to tearing.
MIT engineers’ new technology can probe the neural circuits that influence hunger, mood, and a variety of diseases.
The disorganized arrangement of the proteins in light-harvesting complexes is the key to their extreme efficiency.
A new study shows that truncated versions of the Tau protein are more likely to form the sticky filaments seen in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Distinctive EEG patterns indicate when a patient’s state of unconsciousness under general anesthesia is more profound than necessary.
Findings suggest this hippocampal circuit helps us to maintain our timeline of memories.
Using this computational system, researchers can identify viral protein sequences that could make better vaccine targets.
MIT study sheds light on the longstanding question of why cancer cells get their energy from fermentation.
Expanding tissue samples before sequencing allows researchers to pinpoint locations of RNA molecules.
New technique reveals many possible conformations that a protein may take.
A strategy for preventing boron-containing compounds from breaking down could help medicinal chemists design new drugs.
The gene variant disrupts lipid metabolism, but in cell experiments the effects were reversed by choline supplements.
Oocyte growth relies on physical phenomena that drive smaller cells to dump their contents into a larger cell.
New MIT vaccines that catch a ride to immune cell depots could help fight cancer and HIV.
Tissue-expansion technique could allow scientists to map brain circuits.
Microscopy technique allows scientists to pinpoint RNA molecules in the brain.
New technique enables nanoscale-resolution microscopy of large biological specimens.
Using an ordinary light microscope, researchers can now obtain images with unprecedented accuracy.
New catalyst offers greater control over the synthesis of organic cyclic compounds, including potential cancer drugs.