Bioengineering and biotechnology

MIT: Cells' delicate balancing act is key to higher brain functions

February 2, 2005

Images of human brains, based directly on data from an MRI machine, show the regions of the brain that are activated by peripheral visual stimuli in a person with normal vision and in a person with macular degeneration. People with macular degeneration lack central vision and must use peripheral vision only. The area at the back of the brain (marked by the white ovals) that normally responds only ...

Macular degeneration accompanied by significant brain reorganization

January 19, 2005

David Page named interim director of Whitehead

January 18, 2005

In these endometriosis lesions from the mouse model of endometriosis, both endometriotic glands (arrow) and stroma (arrowhead) are shown.

Endometriosis and ovarian cancer modeled in mouse

January 7, 2005

Cells that have damaged DNA in their nuclei (gray dots) normally stop dividing. However, the two cells for which MAPKAP Kinase-2 activity has been inhibited still undergo cell division (red stain), even in the presence of DNA damage (green stain).

MIT team aims to reduce chemo doses

January 6, 2005

MIT-led team: viruses change shape to infect us

December 21, 2004

A colon cancer cell circulating in the blood stream of an LFS mouse is in the process of dividing and contains substantially more than the normal number chromosomes, a feature that is characteristic of tumor cells. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('mousemodel-smear-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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New model of cancer syndrome could lead to treatments

December 16, 2004

Work by materials science experts -- MIT professor Subra Suresh, left, and research scientist Ming Dao -- is aiding in the search for cures for malaria and pancreatic cancer.

Team engineers cell-deforming technique to help understand malaria

Work led by MIT nanotechnology expert Subra Suresh

December 13, 2004

MIT heart tissue researchers include, from left, HST research scientist Dr. Lisa Freed; Professor Robert Langer; HST research engineer Hyoungshin Park (seated); HST principal research scientist Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, and HST postdoc Milica Radisic (seated).

Engineers aim to mend broken hearts

December 13, 2004

Researchers shed light on intron evolution

December 6, 2004

Software tool helps visualize genomes

December 6, 2004

To test larvae for thermotaxis, a temperature gradient is generated across an agar-covered plate by heating the left half of the plate (heated zone) and leaving the right unheated (unheated zone). <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('1-hotfly-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Some don't like it hot: Unraveling the molecular basis of thermotaxis

December 3, 2004

MIT: Magnesium may reverse middle-age memory loss

December 1, 2004

MIT team finds genetic key to high-level thinking

November 17, 2004

Number of genes in human genome lower than previously estimated

October 29, 2004

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