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Regional finalists in Siemens Competition showcase work at MIT on Nov. 7-8

November 7, 2008

Untangling DNA regulation

Biologists theorize role for DNA packaging in stem cell development

November 6, 2008

MIT researchers have developed a technique to attach tiny polymer "backpacks" to cells. This immune system cells, a B lymphocyte sports one. The scale bar is 10 micrometers.

Tiny backpacks for cells

Polymer patches could ferry drugs, assist in cancer diagnosis

November 6, 2008

2009 Benefits Open Enrollment starts next week

November 6, 2008

Into the wild blue yonder

November 5, 2008

Dr.Chi-Sang Poon, principal research scientist at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) discovers new mechanism that controls respiration.
"This is a beautiful example of a yin-yang relationship," said Poon, with pacemakers exciting and inhibiting one another. "You want to be stable so you can have harmony."
Here Dr. Poon stands by a Yin-Yang water sculpture he apprecia...

Setting the pace

MIT pieces together the mechanism that allows two pacemakers to control breathing

November 3, 2008

J. Christopher Love, Craig Story, Chih-Chi Andrew Hu and Eliseo Papa designed and tested a system that "prints" the antibodies created by immune cells onto a glass slide, below, coated with capture antibodies, producing protein microarrays.

Immunity, from the cell's point of view

Chemical engineers study immune cells in unprecedented detail

November 3, 2008

Head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Paul E Newton (1965) Professor of Neuroscience Mriganka Sur, left, led a toast to newly named Institute Professor Ann Graybiel, along with Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute, at a party given in Graybiel's honor.

Ann Graybiel named Institute Professor

November 3, 2008

DoE's Dehmer to discuss science's role in energy challenges

November 3, 2008

Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab students win Microsoft Dream-Build-Play Competition

November 3, 2008

Human genes sing different tunes in different tissues

Biologists find almost all genes express multiple messenger RNAs

November 2, 2008

Principal research scientist with Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Lisa Freed, left, and George Engelmayr Jr., post-doc in Harvard-MIT Health Sciences report new scaffold (shown on monitor)for tissue engineering of the heart.

Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering

New scaffold approach could also aid engineering of other tissues

November 2, 2008

Professor of Biology Angelika Amon reports new insights into how cells divide, a process important to cancer research.

Too much of a good thing: Cells with extra chromosomes share detrimental traits

New findings could help fight cancer

October 30, 2008

Professor Benjamin Weiss, of the department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, reports oldest known records of planetary magnetic fields, which are a key to understanding earlyÂ planetary evolution. Here he holdsÂ a sample of the vesicular basaltic meteorite named D'Orbigny that he analyzed as part of this study.

Magnetic fields record the early histories of planets

October 30, 2008

Ronald Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science

Levels of the greenhouse gas methane begin to increase again

New surge ends a decade of stability; cause still unknown

October 29, 2008

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Regional finalists in Siemens Competition showcase work at MIT on Nov. 7-8

Untangling DNA regulation

Tiny backpacks for cells

2009 Benefits Open Enrollment starts next week

Into the wild blue yonder

Setting the pace

Immunity, from the cell's point of view

Ann Graybiel named Institute Professor

DoE's Dehmer to discuss science's role in energy challenges

Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab students win Microsoft Dream-Build-Play Competition

Human genes sing different tunes in different tissues

Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering

Too much of a good thing: Cells with extra chromosomes share detrimental traits

Magnetic fields record the early histories of planets

Levels of the greenhouse gas methane begin to increase again

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