Reprogramming gut bacteria as “living therapeutics”
An MIT spinout, Synlogic, is aiming to create a new class of medicines, by re-programming bacteria found in the gut as “living therapeutics.” Based on research by its co-founders, MIT professors Tim Lu and Jim Collins, Synlogic creates so-called synthetic biotics, which sense and correct metabolic abnormalities that underlie some major diseases and rare genetic disorders. Human intestines are fill
Scaling up synthetic-biology innovation
Gen9's BioFab platform synthesizes small DNA fragments on silicon chips and uses other technologies to build longer DNA constructs from those fragments. Done in a parallel, this produces hundreds to thousands of DNA constructs simultaneously. Shown here is an automated liquid-handling instrument that dispenses DNA onto the chips. Inside and outside of the classroom, MIT professor Joseph Jacobson h
Bringing synthetic biology education to life
Synthetic biology — which involves engineering biological systems for new uses — has become an increasingly prominent, and promising, field of study in colleges and universities worldwide. Research has yielded, for example, viruses that attack harmful bacteria, yeasts that produce biofuels, and engineered microorganisms capable of detecting toxins in the environment, among many other innovations.
Reprogramming biology
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Object recognition for free
Caption: The first layers (1 and 2) of a neural network trained to classify scenes seem to be tuned to geometric patterns of increasing complexity, but the higher layers (3 and 4) appear to be picking out particular classes of objects. *Terms of Use: Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a Creative Commo
Telecommunications data show civic dividing lines in major countries
Many residents of Britain, Italy, and Belgium imagine there to be a kind of north-south divide in their countries, marking a barrier between different social groups and regional characteristics. Now a new study by MIT researchers reveals that such divides can be seen in the patterns of communication in those countries and others. Telecommunications data in Britain, for instance, show that only abo
Big medical data
With the recent launch of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT News examines research with the potential to reshape medicine and health care through new scientific knowledge, novel treatments and products, better management of medical data, and improvements in health-care delivery. At the end of 2012, the National Public Radio show "Fresh Air" featured a segment in which its li
What is MITx?
Answering common questions about the Institute’s new approach to online education. This set of FAQs accompanies MIT’s Dec. 19, 2011 announcement regarding MITx. Why is MIT doing this? MIT seeks through the development of MITx to improve education both on the MIT campus and around the world. On campus, MITx will be coupled with an Institute-wide research initiative on online teaching and learning.
Computer automatically deciphers ancient language (MIT News)
An incidental challenge in building a computer system that could decipher Ugaritic (inscribed on tablet) was developing a way to digitally render Ugaritic symbols (inset). In his 2002 book Lost Languages, Andrew Robinson, then the literary editor of the London Times’ higher-education supplement, declared that “successful archaeological decipherment has turned out to require a synthesis of logic an
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