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  • Biological engineer Paul Blainey creates new tools to advance biomedical research

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    October 19, 2019

    His technology platforms have benefited genomics, diagnostics and drug screening. Microfluidics — the science of manipulating tiny amounts of fluid through channels — has been widely used in fields such as genomics, where it has helped to enable high-speed sequencing. Several years ago, Paul Blainey started to wonder why microfluidics was not used for drug…

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  • Technique can image individual proteins within synapses

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    September 26, 2019

    Rapid imaging method could help reveal how conditions such as autism affect brain cells. Our brains contain trillions of synapses — the connections that transmit messages from neuron to neuron. Within these synapses are hundreds of different proteins, and dysfunction of these proteins can lead to conditions such as schizophrenia and autism. Researchers at MIT…

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  • Understanding genetic circuits and genome organization

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    September 12, 2019

    Assistant professors Pulin Li and Seychelle Vos are investigating how cells become tissues and the proteins that organize DNA. MIT’s Department of Biology welcomed two new assistant professors in recent months: Pulin Li began at the Whitehead Institute in May, and Seychelle Vos arrived at Building 68 in September. Their respective expertise in genetic circuits…

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