Bioengineering and biotechnology

Team develops nanoparticles to battle cancer

New particles mimic platelets

February 1, 2007

Lauffenburger wins 2007 Galletti award

January 26, 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

Wrinkled hard skin on polymer surface induced by focused ion beam. The wrinkles are hierarchical with the primary wavelength of 465 nm.

Scientists create wrinkled polymer 'skin'

January 25, 2007

Andrea Ventura, an MIT postdoctoral associate, works in the lab at the Center for Cancer Research. He and his colleagues have shown that by reactivating a certain gene, cancerous tumors in mice can be drastically reduced in size.

Reactivated gene shrinks tumors, MIT study finds

January 24, 2007

CEHS hosts gene-environment symposium Jan. 26

January 24, 2007

Discovery could lead to new therapies for autoimmune diseases

January 22, 2007

MIT graduate student Shawna Liff works with a nanocomposite material she helped develop. The material, composed of nanoparticles embedded in a rubbery polymer, mimics the strength and stretchiness qualities of spider silk.

Nanocomposite research yields strong and stretchy fibers

Lycra-like materials were inspired by spider silk

January 18, 2007

Hynes named scientific governor of U.K. charity

January 12, 2007

A team of scientists led by MIT professor David Bartel has discovered a new class of RNA molecules, termed 21U-RNAs, while studying the C. elegans worm, above.

Scientists discover new class of RNA

January 11, 2007

Biophysicist Alexander Rich first mixed two differing strands of RNA in 1956 to discover the RNA double helix. He holds a model of tRNA (transfer ribonucleic acid).

Scientists celebrate 50 years since key RNA discovery

MIT biophysicist recalls biotech's founding technology

January 9, 2007

Micro-RNA research proves Rich's 1961 'suggestion'

January 9, 2007

MIT creates 3D scaffold for growing stem cells

December 27, 2006

Memory experts show sleeping rats may have visual dreams

December 18, 2006

MIT Museum curator of science and technology Deborah Douglas examines a simple microscope from the exhibit, 'Singular Beauty,' with the owner of the collection, Raymond V. Giordano.

Museum displays 'Singular Beauty' of microscopes

Tiny instruments, invented in 1600s, are still used in research

December 13, 2006

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