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Ten faculty in the MIT School of Science are appointed named professorships in biology; Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences; mathematics; and physics.
The liver’s ability to regenerate itself is legendary. Even if more than 70 percent of the organ is removed, the remaining tissue can regrow an entire new liver.
MIT researchers developed a way to perform genome-wide studies of the liver in mice, using CRISPR. Using the technique, researchers can study how each gene in the mouse genome affects a particular disease or behavior.