3 Questions: Evelyn Fox Keller on the nature-nurture debates
In a new book, prominent historian of science dismisses the ‘unanswerable’ question of whether heredity or the environment matter more in human development.
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When gender isn’t written all over one’s face
Neuroscientists find that the same face may look male or female, depending on where it appears in a person’s field of view.
MIT senior wins Rhodes Scholarship
Jennifer Lai, who is majoring in biological engineering and music and theater arts, is headed to Oxford.
Lindquist receives National Medal of Science
President Obama presents nation’s top science awards at White House ceremony Wednesday.
Using the body’s own defenses to combat cancer
By engineering T cells to attack tumors, researchers hope to add a new weapon to their cancer-fighting arsenal.
A better way to target tumors
In spite of slow progress toward targeting cancer drugs to individual patients, hope remains.
A new target for cancer drugs
Shutting down an enzyme that responds to DNA damage could boost the effects of traditional chemotherapy.
7 win presidential early career honors
MIT has greatest number of recipients from a single institution.
Fine-tuning photosynthesis
MIT analysis shows how synthetic systems for capturing the sun’s energy could be made more efficient.
More than just a pretty flower
MIT chemists engineer the periwinkle plant to produce compounds that could become more effective cancer drugs.
Cancer’s hiding spots revealed
Discovery that tumor cells can escape from chemotherapy could lead to new treatments that prevent relapse.
New Koch Institute building to open soon
Researchers will start moving into the 365,000-square-foot building next week.
Going nature one better
MIT researchers aim to learn biology’s secrets for making tough, resilient materials out of simple components, and then improve on them.