Professor Benedetto Marelli develops silk-based technologies with uses “from lab to fork,” including helping crops grow and preserving perishable foods.

Researchers are working to advance the field of glycoscience, illuminating the essential role of carbohydrates for human health and disease.

More stable clocks could measure quantum phenomena, including the presence of dark matter.

An accordion-textured clay called smectite efficiently traps organic carbon and could help buffer global warming over millions of years.

MIT and MGH researchers design a local, gel-based drug-delivery platform that may provoke a system-wide immune response to metastatic tumors.

Using fluorescent labels that switch on and off, MIT engineers can study how molecules in a cell interact to control the cell’s behavior.

Core-shell structures made of hydrogel could enable more efficient uptake in the body.

The work demonstrates control over key properties leading to better performance.