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Revision as of 17:39, 16 November 2023

BEECH 2024:
Biotech Engineering Exploration Challenge for Highschools

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Overview

Notes about how to use this page

Videos

Techniques

Research projects


Press releases about current MIT biotechnology research

Agriculture and Climate science

Sustainable palm oil alternative
Using microbes as environmental sensors

Biomaterials

DNA-scaffold quantum rods
Light-responsive muscle grafts
Growing pancreatic organoids
Creating synthetic mucus
Enhancing vaccine efficacy with nanoparticles

Computational biology

Computational screening for drug discovery
AI model for biology research
Computational model for effective DNA editing
Using AI to predict cancer development
Machine learning to identify new tuberculosis drugs

Disease biology

Influence of cell fate on cancer progression
Previously unknown immune response regulator
Modulating immune cells for cancer therapy
Using cellular information to find new malaria drugs
Organs on a chip to study disease
Mapping how proteins interact with each other to predict disease

Development of diagnostic and laboratory tools

Mapping a 3D genome
Using cell mass as a new cancer diagnostic
Counting circulating tumor cells as a marker of cancer progression
Microscopy for deep tissue imaging
Artificial intelligence for cancer detection
Using expansion microscopy to view small things in high resolution
Imaging complex cell communication
Creating genetic tools to allow fMRI to map brain connections

Drug delivery

Bacteriophage delivery system
Nanoparticle drug delivery
Vaccine boost for CAR-T cell cancer therapy
Delivering RNA for gene editing
Identifying new cancer drugs with technology
Manufacturing red blood cells for blood transfusions
Developing antibody treatments for infectious disease
Drug delivery to boost immune system in cancer

Gene editing

Targeting RNA therapies
Programmable RNA to edit genome
Programmable enzymes for gene editing

Microbes

Bacteria communication and antibiotic resistance
Mutations that create antibiotic resistance
Modifying mucus to prevent fungal infection