New discovery suggest that all life may share a common design principle.
Microbiology and Systems Ecology
Research in Microbiology and Systems Ecology at MIT emphasizes quantitative methods for detecting and modeling both microbial physiology and community interactions. The interdisciplinary nature of research brings together labs in biology, physics, electrical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences.
Kevin M. Esvelt
Bryan Bryson
New type of virus found in the ocean
The unusial characteristics of these abundant, bacteria-killing viruses could lead to evolutionary insights.
Gut microbes can protect against high blood pressure
Strain of intestinal bacteria can stop a high-salt diet from inducing inflammatory response linked to hypertension.