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The competition for MIT engineering talent is on! Moderna, P&G, Qral Group, and Impact Technology Development will be at the BE & ChemE Career Expo on 10/20. Make sure your company has a table at the Expo.
Register today: ow.ly/BmrU50ZPHZb
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Who's up at BATS?
Aram Shajii (Hammond & White Labs): “Identification and Delivery of Phosphorylated MHC Peptides for Glioblastoma Immunotherapy”
Fiona Wang (@LAMM_MIT): “Engineering AI Collectives for Biological Discovery”
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In a new Science Translational Medicine study by a team including MIT-Novo Nordisk Postdoc Seyed Majed Modaresi and Prof. James Collins from @MITdeptofBE, researchers used deep learning to identify promising new compounds against drug-resistant gonorrhea.
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Meet MIT’s next generation of engineering talent at the BE & ChemE Career Expo on Oct. 20, 2026. Connect with undergraduates, PhD candidates, and postdocs from across MIT. Priority registration rates end Sept. 20—register today: ow.ly/gaXW50ZAWM3
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Learn more about the Voigt Lab: be.mit.edu/faculty/christoph…
MIT researchers have engineered bacteria that can function as transistors, allowing them to create “living circuit boards” like those in the image. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engine…
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Voigt Lab researchers have engineered bacteria that can function as transistors, allowing the team to create living “circuit boards” that can be printed onto a growth medium in a Petri dish. ow.ly/ouEW50ZAH9u @Geneticdesigner @nchembio
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Boyden Lab researchers have developed a method for imaging neuron activity in the zebrafish brain. Each colored spot (green and yellow) represents an active neuron. ow.ly/AGyh50ZzSUf @naturemethods
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Does the ocean know how to cure cancer?
Inspired by how mollusks grow their shells, Angela Belcher is developing a new way to help detect and treat cancer earlier. #CuriosityOnAMission
Read her story: curiositymission.org/stories…
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To address the costly challenges in manufacturing plant fertilizer, Chris Voigt, a professor and department head in @MITdeptofBE, co-founded @PivotBio, a company focused on using microbes to replace a significant share of synthetic fertilizer.
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After losing family and close colleagues to cancer, @MITdeptofBE and @MIT_DMSE Professor Angela Belcher began researching how to detect the disease sooner, before it spreads.
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Doug Lauffenburger named Institute Professor. This position is MIT's highest honor, recognizing invaluable contributions across teaching, research, and service. He was the central founder of MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. ow.ly/xpXB50ZqLbm @DALauffenburger
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In a @NatureComms paper, researchers in @MITDeptofBE suggest that a carcinogen that has been found in medications and in drinking water contaminated by chemical plants may have a much more severe impact on children than adults.
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New MRI sensors developed in the Jasanoff Lab sensitively detect target molecules in the brain and body. Liposomal nanoparticle reporters, or LisNRs, can brighten or dim MRI signals in response to specific molecular targets. ow.ly/CjHz50Z7JwU
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This documentary exceeded my wildest expectations, Kudos to the production team and the amazing women they profiled. There WILL be an MIT screening with some of the stars of the film - including Olympic track medalist Brittany Brown! and TV star Folake Olowofoyeku !
Last night, I celebrated what would have been Marilyn Monroe's 100th birthday in the most inspiring way. The new END Of cycle film is a MUST WATCH!!!!! A great film exploring the journey through pain. Free to watch: endocollective.org/
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A team led by @MITDeptofBE Prof. Forest White has figured out why certain drugs only work for 40-80% of cancer patients: Many of these tumors have turned on a backup survival pathway that helps them keep growing when the targeted pathway is knocked out.
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Science is Curiosity on a Mission: It includes all of us who ask "why" and make it our mission to find out. These are the discoveries that move the country forward. The pursuit of ideas that seemed impossible until they weren’t. #CuriosityOnAMission
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RNA sequencing for small RNAs is becoming more sensitive and scalable with gel-free workflows that reduce primer dimers and improve full-length read generation. - @MIT - @MITdeptofBE rna-seqblog.com/gel-free-lib…
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The @NaturePhotonics paper by co-lead authors Quansan Yang and Gaojie Yang and senior authors @eboyden3 and Peter So, is out today 👇nature.com/articles/s41566-0…
@mitbrainandcog @MITdeptofBE @medialab
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Glad to be a tiny part of this amazing work! Sayani and others @MITdeptofBE developed a liposomal nanoparticle based probe architecture for sensitive detection of biological analytes by MRI and showed utility for molecular imaging in rodents. Congrats!
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