Timothy Lu

MIT engineers have devised a way to encapsulate bacterial sensors into a tough hydrogel sphere, which prevents them from interacting with other microbes in the environment. Image: Christine...

SMART postdoc Irina Afonina (seated) and NTU PhD student Jerome Chua use CRISPRi technology to understand biofilm formation in Enterococcus faecalis. Photo courtesy of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research...

By tweaking bacteriophage genomes, an MIT team creates a new weapon to combat infection.