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Tyler Jacks

Jacks earns top cancer award

April 4, 2006

Nobelist unravels smell at Picower symposium

March 29, 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

Scientists show that children think like scientists

March 24, 2006

MIT marine biologists Ed DeLong and Penny Chisholm check out an ocean water sample. Researchers in Chisholm's lab have shown that gene-swapping takes place among ocean plankton and resembles the flow of genes known to occur among disease-causing bacteria.

Researchers: Oceans are a major gene swap-meet for plankton

March 23, 2006

Warbling whales speak a language all their own

March 22, 2006

A rat's whiskers help the animal create a topographic map of its surroundings in its brain, MIT researchers report.

Rat whiskers lead to brain map

March 22, 2006

Picower research finds unexpected activity in visual cortex

March 16, 2006

Research scientist Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, left, and Professor Gerald E. Schneider, both of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, worked with others to create a technique that helps rodents recover from traumatic brain injuries. The monitor shows a microscopic view of the brain repair.

MIT researchers restore vision in rodents blinded by brain damage

March 13, 2006

Robert Weinberg

Robert Weinberg wins major cancer prize

March 8, 2006

The journal nature has published 'Adventures in Synthetic Biology,' a comic by Drew Endy, Isadora Deese and the MIT Synthetic Biology Working Group, illustrated by Chuck Wadey.

Endy gives talk on DNA programming

March 8, 2006

Ruth Bodner, a postdoctoral fellow in MIT's Center for Cancer Research, has discovered a compound that could lead to the development of a new treatment for Huntington's disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder.

Research holds promise for Huntington's treatment

March 6, 2006

MIT method reveals how radiation damages the body

February 28, 2006

MIT researchers have found that synchronized neurons speed up attention. The color scale in these graphs indicates the degree of synchronized activity of neurons in the monkey's V4 area of the visual cortex. The more the neurons fire in synchrony (red), the faster the monkey notices a small color change in an attended picture (348 instead of 498 milliseconds).

Neurons in sync focus attention, researchers find

February 24, 2006

Thousands of different types of microbes inhabit every cubic centimeter of seawater. Most of the organisms in this picture are about 1/2 of a micrometer, or thousandth of a meter, wide.

Microbe DNA helps scientists understand ocean

February 22, 2006