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Engineers use “DNA origami” to identify design rules
Read more: Engineers use “DNA origami” to identify design rulesIn 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
Read more: Inside the new world of online dissertation defensesEmojis, 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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Hacking life inside and outside the laboratory
Read more: Hacking life inside and outside the laboratoryManaging her own synthetic biology project helped graduate student Jesse Tordoff overcome imposter syndrome and hit her stride. Jesse Tordoff makes cells form unusual patterns. “I have the coolest research project ever, which has the big, broad goal of controlling the shapes that cells grow into.” Her signature shape? Polka dots. “The idea is that…
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