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In mice, the loss of microRNA miR-31 allows cancer cells to spread to the lungs more easily than cancer cells with miR-31. The edge of the cancer tumors lacking miR-31 are also less defined than tumors containing cells with higher levels of miR-31.

RNA snippet suppresses spread of aggressive breast cancer

June 12, 2009

MIT President Susan Hockfield shakes hands with MIT alum Buzz Aldrin ScD '63.

In space, past is prologue

Giant Leaps celebrates Apollo, looks to future missions.

June 12, 2009

Mathematicians take aim at 'phantom' traffic jams

New model could help design better roads

June 9, 2009

This image shows the orbits of all recently discovered ultracool subdwarfs in and around the Milky Way, as seen from 150,000 light years away.

Ultracool stars take 'wild rides' around, outside the Milky Way

June 9, 2009

Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience at MIT

Long-distance brain waves focus attention, McGovern study finds

May 28, 2009

A 'contrast chimera' of Albert Einstein, in which MIT researchers took the negative of an image, then reversed the contrast of the eyes so they appeared normal.

A human failure, seen at face value

Research probes why we have difficulty recognizing faces in photo negatives

March 13, 2009

Phillip (Terry) and Susan Ragon hold a copy of The Boston Globe issue that announced the creation of the Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute. All the principals -- the Ragons as well as the leaders of MGH, MIT and Harvard -- signed the newspaper.

Alum's $100 million gift targets AIDS vaccine

Ragon Institute to tackle quintessential MIT problem

February 4, 2009

MIT researchers use this microchip to trap and fuse pairs of cells.

Getting cells to pair off

New device couples, fuses cells for stem cell research

January 4, 2009

Math professor discovers chaos on a 'fluid trampoline'

Latest milestone in MIT's contributions to chaos theory

December 22, 2008

Daniel G. Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT, has developed a simple method to split water molecules and produce oxygen gas, a discovery that paves the way for large-scale use of solar power.

'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution

Scientists mimic essence of plants' energy storage system

July 31, 2008

Alzheimer's treatment shows promise in clinical trials

Danone drink based on MIT work does well in first human tests.

July 29, 2008

Swager, of chemistry, wins $500K Lemelson-MIT Prize

April 2, 2007

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

Animals have complex dreams, MIT researcher proves

Study may advance understanding of human learning and memory.

January 24, 2001

MIT professor Gian-Carlo Rota, mathematician and philosopher, is dead at 66

April 22, 1999

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