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MIT graduate students receive prestigious Lawrence award
Award acknowledges important contributions to inertial confinement research.
Five MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships
Faculty specializing in mathematics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, and economics among 126 selected.
New nanodevice defeats drug resistance
Tiny particles embedded in gel can turn off drug-resistance genes, then release cancer drugs.
Faculty highlight: Vladimir Bulovic
MIT's associate dean for innovation is inventing at the nanoscale.
Researchers generate a reference map of the human epigenome
Better understanding of epigenetic modifications could elucidate their role in human traits, diseases.
Taking technology from the lab to the patient
Daniel Anderson wants to bring advances in drug delivery and biomaterials to the clinic.
Interdisciplinary medicine
Senior Yiping Xing’s view of health care draws upon research, public health, and policy.
Evaluating strategies for HIV vaccination
Study yields insight into generating antibodies that target different strains of HIV.
Diamonds could help bring proteins into focus
New technique could use tiny diamond defects to reveal unprecedented detail of molecular structures.
MLK Luncheon speakers call for more action
Annual gathering reflects frustration over racial profiling, calls for more involvement by MIT community.
New source of cells for modeling malaria
Liver cells derived from stem cells can be infected with malaria and used to test potential drugs.
