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Polypterus senegalus is a primitive fish whose scaly armor has yielded clues to MIT researchers seeking to better protect soldiers of the future.

Protection built to scale--fish scale, that is

Primitive 'dinosaur eel' could inspire future body armor

July 27, 2008

MIT engineers used a new imaging technique to pinpoint the locations of mouse pancreatic cells with a specific mutation. The blue dots represent pancreatic cell nuclei, and the cells within the yellow cluster express the mutation.

MIT researchers offer glimpse of rare mutant cells

Imaging system may help understand origins of cancer

July 21, 2008

Coronal sections of injured adult spinal cord, anterior to posterior. The labelling shows recombined ependymal cells and their progeny (white) migrating out to the injury area in the dorsal funiculus, as a reponse to the injury (injury is in the image on the right hand corner). The mouse is a FoxJ1-CreER x R26R-LacZ reporter.

Spinal cord stem cells could be basis of new treatment

July 21, 2008

MIT-led team creates touch-based illusion

Mind trick yields new insights on perception

July 17, 2008

Awards and Honors

July 16, 2008

Individual proteins converge to form the distinctive shape of mitochondria.

Team unveils 'parts list' of cell powerhouse

July 11, 2008

Study points to dietary cocktail for Alzheimer's

Supplement improves memory, learning in gerbils

July 8, 2008

Barbara Liskov named Institute Professor

July 1, 2008

New technique produces genetically identical stem cells

July 1, 2008

Tyler Jacks, Director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, gave the introduction at the 2008 Koch Institute Symposium entitled Nanotechnology and Cancer: The Power of Small Science, held at Kresge Auditorium on Friday, June 24. Behind him are pixtures of faculty members who comprise the Koch Institute. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('cancersym1-enlarged.html','','width=509,...

Experts describe promise of nanotech for cancer detection, more

June 30, 2008

The strength of actin binding protein interactions cross-linking a surface bound and bead tethered actin filament are probed using force from an optical trap. Filamin in green which forms networks of actin filaments shown as a confocal image on the right and alpha-actinin in blue which bundles actin filaments, shown as an image on the left, were probed using this assay configuration.

Using a light touch to measure protein bonds

MIT researchers tug at molecules with optical tweezers

June 30, 2008

New probe may help untangle cells' signaling pathways

June 27, 2008

Dr. Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the 2008 recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for his inventions in green manufacturing, nanomedicine and medical devices, in addition to his lab-to-market entrepreneurship and commitment to mentorship. Here, polymer expert DeSimone holds a drum of his PRINT molds, which can manufacture highly customizable and contro...

Polymer expert DeSimone wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

June 25, 2008

Proliferating cells foil microRNA control

June 20, 2008

Diagram shows the structure of a histidine kinase (blue ribbons) and its target response regulator (green ribbons). The specificity of the interaction between the two proteins is primarily determined by the orange and red amino acid residues.

MIT researchers unravel bacteria communication pathways

June 12, 2008

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