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Small secondary tumors (shown in green) formed in the lungs of mice after Li Ma, a postdoctoral researcher at the Whitehead Institue for Biomedical Research, inserted human breast cancer cells into their mammary fat pads. The cancer cells, which normally don't metastasize, acquired the ability to move and invade when Ma boosted the level of a single microRNA.

Team proves role of microRNAs in spread of cancer

September 27, 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

Protein suppresses spread of prostate cancer

July 20, 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

MIT President Susan Hockfield gives her charge to the graduates at MIT's 141st Commencement exercises held Friday, June 8 in Killian Court.

President Hockfield's charge to the graduates

June 8, 2007

MIT IDs role of key protein in tumor growth

March 15, 2007

Image at left shows process of detecting and destroying an enemy missile using MIT targeted radar. Microwave energy is fixed on a missile while simultaneously nullifying enemy jammers. On right, microwave energy is aimed at a cancerous tumor with a deep focused beam while simultaneously nullifying any energy that would overheat surrounding healthy tissue.

New book documents MIT breast cancer therapy

January 26, 2007

Sengupta wins $4M breast cancer award

December 21, 2006

Cancer Center highlights past, present research

June 26, 2006

From left, Todd Harris, graduate student in the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences & Technology (HST), Sangeeta Bhatia, professor in HST, and Geoffrey von Maltzahn, graduate student in HST, view two solutions of enzyme-activated nanoparticles. The enzymes cause the nanoparticles to self-assemble into large aggregates that fall out of solution.

MIT nanoparticles may help detect, treat tumors

May 1, 2006

Professors Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Peter K. Sorger and Michael B. Yaffe share a moment together in Sorger's lab. The three members of MIT's Center for Cancer Research led a team of scientists that has found links between inflammatory disease and cancer.

Studies link cancer, inflammatory disease

March 29, 2006

MIT Bates Lab employees Ken Hatch, Joanne McCarthy, Barbara Santorella and Peter Binns, from left, will walk 60 miles this weekend to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Bates staffers team up for breast cancer walk

July 7, 2005

Cancer hijacks body's wound-healing process

May 20, 2005

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New model of cancer syndrome could lead to treatments

December 16, 2004

Nancy Taylor (right) and her daughter Alyssa during a recent visit to Bryce Canyon in Utah.

A whale of a walk

July 7, 2004

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