Christopher Voigt

Just in time for finals 🙇‍♂️: a bacterium designed to live in your gut and keep you performing well with little sleep. @hopton_rachel @danielgpascal @BrandonFields #microbiome #synbio #biotech #AirForce @MITdeptofBE @MIT pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Fertilizer drives yields—and emissions. @pivotbio is changing that by helping crops make their own nitrogen. A quiet shift with massive potential. youtube.com/watch?v=js89Ja…

In Champaign County, IL, this grower allowed Pivot Bio agronomist @AllenP08 to do three different Total Nitrogen Applied levels throughout the whole field. He then split the planter with Pivot Bio's PROVEN 40-treated corn and untreated check corn. The results are visual and…

Eight children who were at risk of serious genetic conditions have hit all of their developmental milestones after donor mitochondria was used during their IVF conception newscientist.com/article/248858…

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26. This is the 14th year in a row MIT has received this distinction. news.mit.edu/2025/qs-ranks-…

This week in biotechnology: 1. There is a lot of skepticism about virtual cells. I don't think negative criticism is worthwhile, in part, because the first version of everything tends to be bad. Also, AlphaFold2 came out a full 26 years after the CASP competition first began!…

Every GMO debate ignores one simple fact: You've almost never eaten a “natural” food in your life. 👇1/

We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…

Can you imagine?

I’m very excited to be joining MIT Biological Engineering @MITdeptofBE as an Assistant Professor and the Ragon Institute @ragoninstitute as a member in January 2026! I will be recruiting students and postdocs (see more info below).

We’re thrilled to welcome Eric Sun to the MIT Biological Engineering faculty. We can’t wait to see what’s ahead! @ericdsun #welcometoMIT

Learn more about the Ribbeck Lab be.mit.edu/faculty/kathar…

A study by Forest White Lab shows that a high-fat diet sets off metabolic dysfunction in cells that leads to weight gain, but that these effects can be reversed by treatment with an antioxidant. ow.ly/1GCo50W0Z9m @MolecularCell

This moment is the result of years of work, belief, and relentless innovation by our team. We started Strand to push the boundaries of what mRNA can do: BEYOND vaccines, in complex diseases like cancer.

Using a computational strategy that allows them to combine information from many large datasets, Fraenkel Lab have identified several new potential drug targets for Alzheimer’s disease. news.mit.edu/2025/scientist…

I’m beyond thrilled to share that I will be joining the @MIT Department of Biological Engineering @MITdeptofBE as an Assistant Professor in January 2026! I will also be an intramural member of the legendary Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT @kochinstitute

@light_bio's Firefly Petunias on TIME cover!

The bacteria are watching. techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/fie…

We are looking for an ambitious and talented research fellow (lecturer level) to work on an exciting new synthetic genomics project. The research fellow will be encouraged to develop independent research lines complementary to the main project. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Today, NIH announced a new initiative to expand innovative, human-based science while reducing the use of animals in research. This aligns with @US_FDA’s initiative to reduce testing in animals. bit.ly/4jYd4T2