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A scanning electron micrograph of one of the
seventeen fungal species analyzed in the study.

Team probes history of genes with new tool

September 10, 2007

An MIT team has created polymer-DNA nanoparticles to deliver disease-fighting genes . From left are Daniel Anderson, a research associate at the MIT Center for Cancer Research, bioengineering graduate student Jordan Green and Greg Zugates, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering.

MIT works toward safer gene therapy

Biodegradable polymers replace viruses to deliver genes

September 7, 2007

MIT research details parasitic battles

Work indicates impact on evolution

September 5, 2007

This photo shows an immobilized C. elegans worm inside the new microfluidic chip designed at MIT. The green spots are neurons.

MIT invents 'lab on a chip' to automate whole-animal genetic and drug screens

August 20, 2007

Six from MIT win Fulbright student travel grants

August 17, 2007

MIT faculty, alumni among Technology Review's top young innovators

August 15, 2007

Grown in a newly invented culture medium, these normal human breast cells (whose membranes are stained red) form sheets.

Team finds way to create cancer stem cells

MIT achievement could aid cancer research

August 13, 2007

MIT post-doc Joel Neilson, left, graduate student Margaret Ebert and Institute Professor Phillip Sharp have developed a new technique to study the function of microRNA that could shed light on the genetic material's hypothesized role in cancer.

MIT's MicroRNA 'sponges' could aid cancer studies

August 12, 2007

MIT adds new graduate program in microbiology

August 2, 2007

Steven Shannon, operations manager and MR research technologist at MIT, with the 9.4 Tesla MRI machine in the Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute.

New high-resolution MRI machine comes to MIT

July 31, 2007

MIT trio to receive top U.S. science, technology honors

July 27, 2007

Douglas Lauffenburger, director of Biological Engineering, with a schematic of the intracellular "information-processing" circuit on the monitor in front of him.

MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs

Work could lead to targeted therapies

July 26, 2007

The powered ankle-foot prosthesis developed at the MIT Media Lab by Professor Hugh Herr and researchers in the lab's biomechatronics research group.

Joint effort: Robotic ankle research gets off on the right foot

Army vet demos MIT prosthesis; device is first of its kind

July 23, 2007

Paul Huang, graduate student in biological engineering, left, and Professor Forest White of biological engineering with a mass spectrometer showing the electrospray ionization tip of a liquid chromatography column. Samples are loaded on the column and electrosprayed into the mass spectrometer, where their mass and sequence is identified, allowing White and Huang to analyze the sample.

Brain discovery could fight deadly tumors

July 18, 2007

Professors Roman Stocker, left, and John Bush display a mixture of oil, detergent and water. Their research explains what happens when an oil drop containing a water-insoluble surfactant is placed on a water surface.

Case closed: MIT gumshoes solve "throbbing" oil mystery

July 17, 2007

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