The Chronicle of Higher Education

MIT Fires Biology Professor Who Admitted Faking Data

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has fired a biology professor who admitted he fabricated and falsified data in a paper, several manuscripts, and grant applications. The California Institute ...
FierceBiotech

MIT team employs synthetic biology to create 'circuits' that could detect signs of disease

What if our cells could be programmed to detect an imminent heart attack and warn us in time to get to the doctor before it happens? Or perhaps they could sense falling blood sugar in diabetics and ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

Northwestern and MIT Receive Funding from Army’s Synthetic Biology Center

Northwestern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), recognized leaders in the growing field of synthetic biology, recently received significant grant awards from the Army for ...
Boston.com

MIT taps Chris Kaiser, former head of biology department, as new provost

Chris A. Kaiser, professor and former chairman of the Department of Biology at MIT, has been named the college’s new provost. Kaiser succeeds L. Rafael Reif, who recently was appointed MIT’s president ...
The Business Journals

MIT's Koch Institute gets new director

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Five months after its founding director, Tyler Jacks ...