After a dry spell, a rainy day can feel rejuvenating. But for plants, a downpour can mean trouble. Faced with water suddenly rushing into its tissues, a plant must control its cells' volume or risk them exploding.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 11, 2020
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More than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur, MIT researchers report in the journal Nature.
Environment
Feb 12, 2020
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Can scrambled eggs unscramble themselves? Well, sort of.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2019
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Plants, like humans and animals, have over millions of years evolved complex immune systems that fend off invading pathogens. But unlike many animals, plants lack adaptive immunity conferred by antibodies. This means each ...
Biotechnology
Aug 22, 2019
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MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using acoustic waves. Their technique allows them to monitor single cells over several generations and investigate how stiffness changes ...
Biotechnology
Feb 11, 2019
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The science is clear that human activities over the last century have contributed to greenhouse-like warming of the Earth's surface. Much of the global conversation around climate change fixates on what individual countries ...
Environment
Dec 17, 2018
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Inside a cell, death often occurs like the wave at a baseball game.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 9, 2018
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MIT biologists have designed a new peptide that can disrupt a key protein that many types of cancers, including some forms of lymphoma, leukemia, and breast cancer, need to survive.
Biochemistry
Jan 16, 2018
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563
One little-known fact about mass shootings is that they have been very good for the gun business. Americans' anxieties are stoked both by the random violence itself and the ensuing debates over gun control. Customers, including ...
Social Sciences
Dec 7, 2017
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Several types of conventional cancer therapies, such as radiotherapy or chemotherapy, destroy healthy cells along with cancer cells. In advanced stages of cancer, tissue loss from treatments can be substantial and even fatal. ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 22, 2024
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