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  • 3 Questions: Ibrahim Cissé on using physics to decipher biology

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    July 22, 2020

                                                          A biophysicist employs super-resolution microscopy to peer inside living cells and witness never-before-seen phenomena How do cells use physics to carry out biological processes? Biophysicist Ibrahim Cissé explores…

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  • Engineers use “DNA origami” to identify design rules

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    June 29, 2020

    In lab tests, virus-like DNA structures coated with viral proteins provoke a strong immune response in human B cells.   By folding DNA into a virus-like structure, MIT researchers have designed HIV-like particles that provoke a strong immune response from human immune cells grown in a lab dish. Such particles might eventually be used as…

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  • Inside the new world of online dissertation defenses

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    May 22, 2020

    Emojis, grandmas logging in, and kudos from strangers: How MIT students have finished their PhDs during the pandemic.   Call it another MIT innovation. When PhD student Jesse Tordoff passed her dissertation defense this month, she learned about the outcome in a new way: Her professors sent a thumbs-up emoji on the Zoom screen they…

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