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Media Lab hosts memorial for Aaron Swartz

March 16, 2013

Office of Educational Innovation and Technology joins the Office of Digital Learning

February 19, 2013

In economists' jargon, an "auction" is any market that involves a single seller and a group of buyers. In some auctions, the seller has information about the populations from which the buyers are drawn — as at a movie theater, which can ask its customers to produce student IDs or senior-citizen cards.

Computer science tackles 30-year-old economics problem

MIT researchers generalize Nobel winner’s work on single-item auctions to auctions involving multiple items.

June 25, 2012

Medicine, microorganisms and Mexico

Biology major and Rhodes Scholar combines research and social service in the study of infectious diseases.

February 6, 2012

Whitehead Institute Founding Member and MIT Professor of Biology Rudolf Jaenisch.

Whitehead member, biology professor Rudolf Jaenisch wins National Medal of Science

Honored for work on gene expression, stem cells.

September 27, 2011

How the Hippies Saved Physics, David Kaiser (W.W. Norton & Company, 2011)

Said and Done

Humanities, arts and social sciences digest for April 2011

April 21, 2011

Sangeeta Bhatia, the Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, described how her lab is creating drug-delivering nanoparticles.

The past, present and future of cancer

Researchers gather to discuss the state of their field and the potential for new treatments.

March 18, 2011

2006 MIT-France Seed Fund awardees Ben Weiss and Jerome Gattacceca received a grant to explore the impact demagnetization of geological materials.

2010-11 MISTI Global Seed Funds winners announced

More than $900,000 distributed to 46 international faculty research projects.

February 10, 2011

The welcoming atmosphere at Leading Jewish Minds has everyone smiling. Rabbi Michelle Fisher SM '97, left, speaks with John Klensin ‘66, PhD ’79 and Danny Watt, right, director of development for Hillel.

A spiritual path away from MIT leads one grad back to the Institute

Rabbi Michelle Fisher returns to head up Hillel and prompts a new lecture series

October 20, 2010

Susan Lindquist, a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and an MIT biology professor, has been named a recipient of the National Medal of Science.

Susan Lindquist wins National Medal of Science

The Whitehead Institute member and MIT biology professor is one of 10 chosen to receive the top U.S. science honor.

October 15, 2010

Concert to honor Noam Chomsky

January 21, 2010

A turning point in the struggle against cancer?

Using new tools, ideas and ways of working, MIT biologists and engineers hope to change paradigm.

September 21, 2009

Biochemist JoAnne Stubbe wins National Medal of Science

Nation's top science honor goes to MIT biochemist for her role in helping reveal the mechanism of enzymes involved in DNA replication and repair

September 17, 2009

In a comparison of a control to the chemical identified by the Weinberg/Lander team, called salinomycin, the tumor cells (stained dark purple in both slides) were unaffected by the control, but salinomycin killed many tumor cells (stained pink).

Taking aim at aggressive cancer cells

Researchers use novel stem-cell method to discover chemical with potency against breast tumors in mice

August 13, 2009

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

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