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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

Work offers new insight into cancer metastasis

June 24, 2004

Left: To detect and destroy an enemy missile, microwave energy is targeted on the missile while nullifying enemy jammers. Right: To kill a cancerous tumor, microwave energy is focused on the tumor while nullifying any energy that would overheat surrounding health tissue.

MIT radar research used to fight breast cancer

April 28, 2004

Left: To detect and destroy an enemy missile, microwave energy is targeted on the missile while simultaneously nullifying enemy jammers. Right: To kill a cancerous tumor, microwave energy is focused on the tumor while simultaneously nullifying any energy that would overheat surrounding health tissue.

MIT aims radar research at breast cancer

April 15, 2004

Team creates mouse model to aid breast cancer studies

April 7, 2004

You wouldn't know by looking at it, but the mammary glands in this mouse are made up of human cells

Study offers new model for breast cancer

March 26, 2004

News You Can Use

March 3, 2004

A drop of ferrofluid morphed into this design resembling Native American art.

MIT research highlights from the past year

December 24, 2003

$Professor Michael Yaffe loads a tiny protein crystal onto an X-ray diffractometer machine to study its structure.$

New breast cancer gene mechanism found

October 29, 2003

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