Health sciences and technology

MIT graduate student Chris Loose, left, and Professor Greg Stephanopoulos look for signs of bacteria. The researchers and their colleagues have custom-designed molecules that are effective in killing microbes.

MIT's anti-microbial 'grammar' posits new language of healing

Custom peptides punch holes in anthrax, staph bacteria

October 19, 2006

Institute of Medicine elects three from MIT

October 11, 2006

MIT's Deshpande Center announces fall 2006 research grants

October 11, 2006

MIT research scientist Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, left, and Professor Gerald Schneider bracket a monitor showing a transected liver after it has been treated with a liquid solution containing peptides. The peptides self-assemble into a gel that essentially seals over the wound. The two developed the technique with MIT colleagues and researchers at the University of Hong Kong.

MIT material stops bleeding in seconds

MIT unveils new treatment for wounds

October 10, 2006

MIT alum shares Nobel Prize in physiology

Andrew Fire PhD ’83 and colleague discovered gene regulator RNAi.

October 2, 2006

Genetic 'roadmap' charts links between drugs and human disease

September 29, 2006

Sensing calcium as it flows into neurons following firing can potentially track information flow throughout the brain's circuitry. Now, an MIT team has developed a calcium contrast agent for non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging detection. At top, a schematic shows how nanoparticles coated with two proteins (red and green) form mixed aggregates in the presence of calcium. The bottom panel shows ...

Nanoparticles to aid brain imaging, team reports

September 27, 2006

MIT researchers recently found that human ubiquitin hydrolase, shown here, has the most complicated knot ever observed in a protein. The simplified diagram, inset, shows the knot in the protein, which crosses itself five times.

Knotty problem puzzles protein researchers

September 20, 2006

Two MIT scientists win 2006 Pioneer Awards

September 19, 2006

Seven MIT projects win environmental health grants

September 13, 2006

This scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image shows MIT's new nanoscale molecular sieve, which consists of thousands of alternating deep (300 nanometers or billionths of a meter) and shallow (55 nanometers) regions. The deep and shallow regions act together to form energy barriers that separate proteins by size. Pores of different sizes can be engineered for different filters to capture specific p...

MIT's molecular sieve advances protein research

September 11, 2006

Epilepsy breakthrough on horizon

MIT developing device to detect oncoming seizures

August 31, 2006

MIT proton treatment could replace x-ray use in radiation therapy

August 28, 2006

MIT, FDA team up on drug safety

August 21, 2006

Dean Calcagni, HST advisory council member, left, chats with Sean McKee, Pharma Biosante, at the 5th annual BioBash.

CBI unveils drug initiative at forum