Weighing the cell
MIT biological engineers devise a way to measure, for the first time, how single cells accumulate mass.
Koch Institute
To starve a tumor
MIT’s Matthew Vander Heiden is part of a new generation of cancer researchers trying to exploit cancer cells’ strange metabolism.
Explained: RNA interference
Exploiting the recently discovered mechanism could allow biologists to develop disease treatments by shutting down specific genes.
Possible origins of pancreatic cancer revealed
Tumors can arise from different cell types in the pancreas, depending on the circumstances, according to MIT cancer biologists.
Cancer research gets physical
5-year grant from the National Cancer Institute will fund projects by physicists that give a new view of cancer cells.
Protein is linked to lung cancer development
Drugs that inhibit the protein, which normally helps defend cells from infection, could target tumors in certain lung cancer patients.
Two from MIT elected to the Institute of Medicine
Professor of Economics Amy Finkelstein and Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute, join arm of the National Academies of Science.
In Profile: Scott Manalis
His technology to weigh single cells led to an unexpected research focus: figuring out how cancerous cells escape normal growth controls.
A turning point in the struggle against cancer?
Using new tools, ideas and ways of working, MIT biologists and engineers hope to change paradigm.