MRI study finds differences in prenatal oxygen transport from mother to baby When a baby is born small, it’s often attributed to genetic factors or maternal risk factors like poor nutrition or smoking. But a twin study led by researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital now find that slower transport of…

The Broshy Fellowship recipients named for the 2016/2017 award season were Helena de Puig Guixe, a Mechanical Engineering PhD student working in the Gerhke Lab with Professor Lee Gehrke, and Tony Kulesa, a Biological Engineering PhD student working with Professor Paul Blainey in the Blainey Lab. The Broshy Fellowship, named for Eran…

Portable tool could help scientists learn more about cells’ roles in many diseases. Sequencing messenger RNA molecules from individual cells offers a glimpse into the lives of those cells, revealing what they’re doing at a particular time. However, the equipment required to do this kind of analysis is cumbersome and…

Kwanghun Chung, Samuel A. Goldblith Career Development Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at MIT, core faculty member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, core member of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and an Associate member of the Broad Institute, was selected to receive a 2016 NIH New…

New technique offers precise manipulation of when and where genes are targeted. The genome-editing system known as CRISPR allows scientists to delete or replace any target gene in a living cell. MIT researchers have now added an extra layer of control over when and where this gene editing occurs, by…