Bioengineering and biotechnology

Top panels: Cells of the intestinal lining of mice lacking the embryonic pluripotency regulator Oct4 stop dividing and die after radioactive exposure. Middle panels: Intestinal stem cells then become activated and begin dividing rapidly. Bottom panels: The intestinal lining is completely regenerated, with stem cells relocating to the bottom.

Adult stem cells lack key regulator

October 23, 2007

Microspheres coated with certain molecules stick to the protein P-selectin on a glass surface and begin to roll across that surface. Microspheres without the coating did not stick and roll

MIT works toward novel therapeutic device

Applications include zapping cancer cells

October 22, 2007

Poitras gift to support mental illness research at McGovern

October 22, 2007

Fluorescent micrograph (scaleÂ bar: 10 micrometers)Â shows yeast cells (red) with septin (green), which enables the budding of daughter cells. MIT researchers have found septinÂ also helps neurons sprout the branch-like protrusions used to communicate with other neurons.Â

MIT finds new role for well-known protein

Research could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's

October 18, 2007

An interview with Tyler Jacks on the new David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

October 17, 2007

MIT Professor Christopher Moore hypothesizes that blood actively modulates how neurons process information.

Blood may help us think

October 16, 2007

Institute of Medicine elects Brown

October 13, 2007

Dr. Jane-Jane Chen and post-doc Sijin Liu of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Their research team has identified a protein that is key in regulating iron recycling in blood, and could lead to therapeutic drugs for certain blood diseases.

MIT uncovers key protein in iron metabolism

Discovery could lead to new therapeutics for certain blood diseases

October 11, 2007

MIT links gene to cholesterol

Research could lead to drugs for atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's

October 11, 2007

MIT finds new hearing mechanism

Discovery could lead to improved hearing aids

October 10, 2007

David H. Koch gives $100 million to MIT for cancer research

MIT to establish an integrative research institute to develop new paradigms in cancer research

October 9, 2007

Amon, Golub win cancer prize

Paul Marks Prize recognizes significant research contributions

October 3, 2007

Lakshminarayan Srinivasan (S.M., Ph.D. 2006) is part of a team that develops standardizing math equations to allow neural prostheses to work better. He is currently a medical student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Nervous System Repair at Massachusetts General Hospital.

MIT research helps convert brain signals into action

October 2, 2007

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

Team demos safety of RNA therapy

Research could lead to treatments for cancer, many other diseases

September 26, 2007

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