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The research of Professor Richard Wurtman (left), director of the Clinical Research Center, and Lisa Teather, a postdoctoral associate in brain and cognitive sciences, may lead to powerful new painkilling drugs.

Powerful new painkillers may be developed from research

April 3, 2002

New fellowships for doctoral candidates in biological engineering created by Biogen

April 3, 2002

Team reports source of human cells for engineered blood vessels

March 28, 2002

Jaenisch and Daley of Whitehead partially restore immune function in mice

March 13, 2002

DNA arrays give clues to vaccines

February 6, 2002

Cell jacket sugars, proteins are focus of consortium

January 30, 2002

Dr. Dongfang Liu (seated) and Professor Ram Sasisekharan in their lab, where they have developed a new technique to attack acncer by designing drugs that affect the sugar coats on cells.

Team tailors cell jackets to inhibit cancer growth

January 30, 2002

MIT Research Associate Dongfang Liu treats melanoma tumor cells with the sugar fragments he and colleagues report inhibit tumor growth. At right is Associate Professor Ram Sasisekharan, leader of the team. Both are in MIT's Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health.

MIT team tailors cell jackets to prevent cancer

January 21, 2002

Media Lab postdoc Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, one of the authors of a paper on biomolecules and radio waves, at work in the lab at the Center for Biomedical Engineering.

Scientists control biological materials with radio waves

January 16, 2002

Media Lab postdoc Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, one of the authors of a paper on biomolecules and radio waves, at work in the lab at the Center for Biomedical Engineering.

MIT researchers control biological materials with radio waves

January 9, 2002

Biomedical engineering program to offer second track

December 12, 2001

Inaugural Sackler Lecture scheduled

November 14, 2001

Scientists build case for 'haplotype' map of human genome

October 24, 2001

Talk on stem cells rescheduled for today

October 3, 2001

Researchers from around the world gathered at the Capsis Hotel in Crete to discuss exciting new applications for peptides, the designer materials of the future. MIT participants included (front row, left to right) senior Pei-Hsin Lin, postdoctoral associates Kimberly Hamad and Wonmuk Hwang, Professor Alexander Rich and conference co-organizer Shuguang Zhang, associate director of the Center for Bi...

Peptide/protein self-assembly applications touted at conference

September 12, 2001