Yeast that count

New York Times
Jeff Way discusses the Institute's project from the Department of Energy to develop a novel reverse fuel cell that will generate biofuel.

MIT News
MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that could be used to rewrite the genetic code of a living cell, allowing them to make large-scale edits to the cell’s genome. Such technology could enable scientists to design cells that build proteins not found in nature, or engineer bacteria that are resistant to any type of viral infection.

Harvard Gazette
Two young Harvard scientists will each receive $2.54 million or more in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants .... John Calarco, a Bauer Fellow at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for Systems Biology, and Harris Wang, a Technology Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, were among the first 10 researchers to receive NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards...