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Whitehead Institute researchers reprogrammed human skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients into an embryonic-stem-cell-like state. After removing the reprogramming genes, the scientists used these so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to create dopamine-producing neurons, the cell type that degenerates in Parkinson's disease patients.Â To confirm that the iPS cells had become dopam...

Potential cancer-causing genes removed from engineered stem cells

Whitehead work involved reprogrammed skin cells from Parkinson's patient

March 5, 2009

Awards and Honors: March 4, 2009

March 5, 2009

Sophomore Asad Moten holds up a fibrous scaffold he developed that can help regenerate cartilage and other tissues.

Student's invention holds promise for engineering tissues and organs

March 4, 2009

3-D day

21st century holography to be explored in MIT Museum forum

March 4, 2009

Gold star

Geoffrey von Maltzahn awarded $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for innovations in fight against cancer

March 3, 2009

Awards and Honors: Feb. 25, 2009

February 25, 2009

MISTI selects first winners of Global Seed Funds

February 24, 2009

Lermusiaux chosen for Doherty Professorship

February 19, 2009

MLK celebration speech by MIT senior Matt Gethers

February 18, 2009

New faculty task force to examine tenure issues

February 18, 2009

The figures show melanin production by Escherichia coli expressing a heterologous tyrosinase enzyme.Â Figure A is production with supplementation of the substrate (tyrosine) and Figure B is with endogenous production of the substrate (tyrosine) by 5 different engineered strains.

Enlisting microbes to solve global problems

Researchers harness bacteria to produce energy, clean up environment

February 17, 2009

Professor of Biological Engineering David Schauer and post-doc Megan McBee do work on infectious diarrhea in the developing world.

Chronic infection may add to developing-world deaths

MIT study points to hidden threat stalking many diarrhea patients

February 13, 2009

Rewarding excellence

Annual MIT honors go to 15 individuals and three teams

February 11, 2009

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Speakers pledge to carry on King's dream

February 6, 2009

Professor of Anthropology and author of "Alien Ocean" Stefan Helmreich by a map showing areas where the microbes his subjects study proliferate.

Aliens at sea

Anthropologist Helmreich studies researchers studying ocean microbes

February 5, 2009

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