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MIT breaks ground for Koch institute

March 8, 2008

Researchers in MIT cancer researcher Tyler Jacks' lab have demonstrated the role of a family of microRNAs in normal embryonic development. Amanda Young, a graduate student of biology, shows a film to, from left, postdoc Monte Winslow, research technician Laura Lintault and postdoc Andrea Ventura.

MIT researchers demonstrate protective role of microRNA

Genetic snippets linked to cancer also key to embryonic cell development

March 7, 2008

Professor Emeritus J. Francis Reintjes dies at 96

March 5, 2008

This prototype of the PANTHER device is about one cubic foot and weighs 37 pounds.

PANTHER sensor from MIT Lincoln Laboratory quickly detects pathogens

March 3, 2008

Team probes mysteries of oceanic bacteria

Wee creatures are key to Earth's environment

March 3, 2008

MIT graduate student and synthetic biologist Timothy Lu has won the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventing processes to combat bacterial infections by enhancing the effectiveness of antibiotics.

Bacteria beware: MIT student invents knock-out punch for antibiotic resistance

Timothy Lu awarded $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventiveness

February 27, 2008

Core curriculum changes discussed at faculty meeting

February 27, 2008

Philip Lessard, Kazuhiko Kurosawa and Anthony Sinskey display a new type of antibiotic they produced by pitting two strains of bacteria against one another. Lessard, a research scientist, and postdoc Kurosawa work in the MIT lab of Sinskey, a professor of microbiology and health sciences and technology.

Bacterial 'battle for survival' leads to new antibiotic

Holds promise for treating stomach ulcers

February 26, 2008

Seven junior faculty named Sloan Research Fellows

February 25, 2008

Crewmembers of an earlier mission at the Mars Society Desert Research Station in Utah set out for an exploratory trip on their all-terrain vehicles, wearing simulated space suits.

The next-best thing to being on Mars

February 25, 2008

Media Advisory: Cancer briefing for reporters to be held at MIT March 6

February 21, 2008

MIT Professor Eric Lander describes the future of biology in an inspirational talk to high school students as part of the annual meeting of the American Junior Academy of Science.

Trip of a lifetime: MIT hosts next generation of science leaders

February 20, 2008

This transmission electron micrograph (TEM) shows the 1918 influenza virus, which CDC researchers re-created in 2005.

MIT explains spread of 1918 flu pandemic

February 18, 2008

Learning about brains from computers, and vice versa

February 16, 2008

MIT students design graduate student development program