Biologists discover how yeast cells reverse aging
The gene they found can double yeast lifespan when turned on late in life.
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Exploiting cancer cells' weaknesses
Team identifies potential drugs that enhance stress caused by too many chromosomes.
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.
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.
Too much of a good thing: Cells with extra chromosomes share detrimental traits
New findings could help fight cancer
Protein role in cell division re-evaluated by MIT researchers
Work could impact study of miscarriages, birth defects
David H. Koch gives $100 million to MIT for cancer research
MIT to establish an integrative research institute to develop new paradigms in cancer research
New MIT technique weighs single living cells
One promising application is creation of a cheap and robust device to monitor CD4 cell numbers in AIDS patients