Larry McCray and Rocco Casagrande served on a panel on the social aspects of synthetic biology on October 11 at the National Institutes of Health.

The meeting was convened jointly by the National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity and the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee [RAC]....

During the summer of 2007, PoET student Chintan Vaishnav from the Engineering Systems Division wrote a paper, "The End of Core: should disruptive innovation in telecom invoke discontinuous regulatory response?" It received an honorary...

Five MIT researchers are among the pioneers behind a new research center in synthetic biology, a precocious field whose primary long-term goal is to make it easier to design and build useful organisms.

Current work includes refining pieces of DNA into standard biological parts that...

The Net’s basic flaws cost firms billions, impede innovation, and threaten national security. It’s time for a clean-slate app

In his office within the gleaming-stainless-steel and orange-brick jumble of MIT’s Stata Center, Internet elder statesman and onetime chief protocol architect...