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Awards and Honors: Nov. 5, 2008

November 5, 2008

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MIT to celebrate 150th anniversary in 2011

November 4, 2008

The world in a whole new light

November 4, 2008

Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab students win Microsoft Dream-Build-Play Competition

November 3, 2008

J. Christopher Love, Craig Story, Chih-Chi Andrew Hu and Eliseo Papa designed and tested a system that "prints" the antibodies created by immune cells onto a glass slide, below, coated with capture antibodies, producing protein microarrays.

Immunity, from the cell's point of view

Chemical engineers study immune cells in unprecedented detail

November 3, 2008

DoE's Dehmer to discuss science's role in energy challenges

November 3, 2008

Dr.Chi-Sang Poon, principal research scientist at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) discovers new mechanism that controls respiration.
"This is a beautiful example of a yin-yang relationship," said Poon, with pacemakers exciting and inhibiting one another. "You want to be stable so you can have harmony."
Here Dr. Poon stands by a Yin-Yang water sculpture he apprecia...

Setting the pace

MIT pieces together the mechanism that allows two pacemakers to control breathing

November 3, 2008

Head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Paul E Newton (1965) Professor of Neuroscience Mriganka Sur, left, led a toast to newly named Institute Professor Ann Graybiel, along with Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute, at a party given in Graybiel's honor.

Ann Graybiel named Institute Professor

November 3, 2008

Principal research scientist with Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Lisa Freed, left, and George Engelmayr Jr., post-doc in Harvard-MIT Health Sciences report new scaffold (shown on monitor)for tissue engineering of the heart.

Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering

New scaffold approach could also aid engineering of other tissues

November 2, 2008

Human genes sing different tunes in different tissues

Biologists find almost all genes express multiple messenger RNAs

November 2, 2008

Professor Benjamin Weiss, of the department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, reports oldest known records of planetary magnetic fields, which are a key to understanding earlyÂ planetary evolution. Here he holdsÂ a sample of the vesicular basaltic meteorite named D'Orbigny that he analyzed as part of this study.

Magnetic fields record the early histories of planets

October 30, 2008

Professor of Biology Angelika Amon reports new insights into how cells divide, a process important to cancer research.

Too much of a good thing: Cells with extra chromosomes share detrimental traits

New findings could help fight cancer

October 30, 2008

Awards and honors: Oct. 29, 2008

October 29, 2008

Snapshots of staff diversity efforts at MIT

October 29, 2008

International financier and philanthropist George Soros, right, had a conversation with Ford International Professor of Economics and head of the department of economics Ricardo J. Cabellero at Kresge on Tuesday, October 28.

Soros says crisis underscores need for regulation

October 29, 2008

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Awards and Honors: Nov. 5, 2008

MIT to celebrate 150th anniversary in 2011

The world in a whole new light

Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab students win Microsoft Dream-Build-Play Competition

Immunity, from the cell's point of view

DoE's Dehmer to discuss science's role in energy challenges

Setting the pace

Ann Graybiel named Institute Professor

Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering

Human genes sing different tunes in different tissues

Magnetic fields record the early histories of planets

Too much of a good thing: Cells with extra chromosomes share detrimental traits

Awards and honors: Oct. 29, 2008

Snapshots of staff diversity efforts at MIT

Soros says crisis underscores need for regulation

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