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New map reveals secret of stem cell development

April 21, 2006

Research gives lazy eye theory a workout

April 14, 2006

MIT postdoctoral associate Rana el Kaliouby demonstrated wearable technology she helped develop that may aid people with autism spectrum disorders. The session took place at the Body Sensor Network International Workshop held at MIT April 4 and 5.

Media Lab hosts workshop on body sensors

April 12, 2006

Graduate student Dhananjay Dendukuri, Professor Patrick Doyle, graduate student Daniel Pregibon and Professor Alan Hatton developed a new method for creating microparticles, shown on the monitor to the right.

Big breakthrough for tiny particles

April 10, 2006

Some crystallography sleuthing by Associate Professor Catherine L. Drennan of chemistry has uncovered the secret behind some naturally produced medicinal compounds. Drennan was also recently named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.

Chemist discovers secret behind nature's medicines

April 10, 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

Experts tackle issues raised by race-based drugs

April 5, 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

Tyler Jacks

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

Research scientist Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, left, and Professor Gerald E. Schneider, both of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, worked with others to create a technique that helps rodents recover from traumatic brain injuries. The monitor shows a microscopic view of the brain repair.

MIT researchers restore vision in rodents blinded by brain damage

March 13, 2006

Ruth Bodner, a postdoctoral fellow in MIT's Center for Cancer Research, has discovered a compound that could lead to the development of a new treatment for Huntington's disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder.

Research holds promise for Huntington's treatment

March 6, 2006

MIT method reveals how radiation damages the body

February 28, 2006

MIT researchers have found that synchronized neurons speed up attention. The color scale in these graphs indicates the degree of synchronized activity of neurons in the monkey's V4 area of the visual cortex. The more the neurons fire in synchrony (red), the faster the monkey notices a small color change in an attended picture (348 instead of 498 milliseconds).

Neurons in sync focus attention, researchers find

February 24, 2006