Cancer

Researchers tracked the movement of human prostate tumor cells, such as the one at left, in a 3-D matrix, right.

Whitehead brings new dimension to cancer research

July 12, 2006

Cancer symposium packs Kresge

June 29, 2006

Cancer Center highlights past, present research

June 26, 2006

Chromosomes (blue) are shown being pulled apart by microtubules (red). The two yellow spots are the organizing centers required for assembling microtubules. MIT researchers recently pinpointed two proteins that are key to normal cell division.

MIT sheds light on how tumor cells form

June 20, 2006

Public database aids drug researchers

May 30, 2006

From left, Todd Harris, graduate student in the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences & Technology (HST), Sangeeta Bhatia, professor in HST, and Geoffrey von Maltzahn, graduate student in HST, view two solutions of enzyme-activated nanoparticles. The enzymes cause the nanoparticles to self-assemble into large aggregates that fall out of solution.

MIT nanoparticles may help detect, treat tumors

May 1, 2006

Cancer research funding called key

NCI head gives talk

April 25, 2006

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, seated, joins Dr. Omid C. Farokhzad and researcher Benjamin A. Teply beside a monitor displaying an image of nanoparticles on Friday, March 31. The three are among a team of researchers that showed nanoparticles could be custom designed to destroy cancer cells.

Nanoparticles armed to combat cancer

April 10, 2006

New tools enable large-scale studies of gene function

April 7, 2006

Dr. Raphael Bueno, left, and team use a new MIT technology to shrink a patient's lung tumor by more than 90 percent during laser surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

MIT technology used to shrink tumor

April 5, 2006

Jacks earns top cancer award

April 4, 2006

Professors Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Peter K. Sorger and Michael B. Yaffe share a moment together in Sorger's lab. The three members of MIT's Center for Cancer Research led a team of scientists that has found links between inflammatory disease and cancer.

Studies link cancer, inflammatory disease

March 29, 2006

Robert Weinberg wins major cancer prize

March 8, 2006

MIT method reveals how radiation damages the body

February 28, 2006

Blood researchers find mechanism behind disease

December 19, 2005

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