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Research scientist Kazutoshi Nakazawa (left), Professor Susumu Tonegawa (center) and Professor Matthew Wilson stand next to the water tank where mice were tested for their memory of the location of a submerged platform.

Gene involved in memory retrieval identified

June 5, 2002

Biology department awards were made to (back row, left to right) Dobrin Draganov, Tara Mullaney, Elissa M. Schwartzfarb, Stacy Chen, (front row, left to right) Tetsuya Matsuguchi and Cindy Ku.

Six seniors honored in biology

June 5, 2002

HIV-1 virus production inhibited in the lab

June 4, 2002

Chemical engineering research associate Yadong Wang stretches a piece of regular vulcanized rubber. Biorubber, which is white and oaque, is stretched using the machine by his side.

MIT's biorubber ushers in new possibilities in tissue engineering

May 31, 2002

Research scientist Kazutoshi Nakazawa (left), Professor Susumu Tonegawa (center) and Professor Matthew Wilson stand next to the water tank where mice were tested for their memory of the location of a submerged platform.

MIT researchers ID gene involved in memory retrieval

May 30, 2002

President Charles M. Vest, Barbara Picower, Jeffry Picower and Professor Susumu Tonegawa at last week's announcement of the Picower Foundation's gift of $50 million to establish the Picower Center for Learning and Memory at MIT. An architect's early design model for the new center can be seen on the table behind them.

$50 million Picower gift will support brain research at MIT

May 15, 2002

This image shows a pair of zebrafish embryos at three days of age. The top specimen is the wild type and the bottom specimen has a mutation in a gene encoding a vacuolar-ATPase subunit, which causes the fish to have less pigment.

First genetic 'recipe' for zebrafish created by researchers in MIT lab

May 15, 2002

This image depicts a group of Zebrafish embryos at 2 days of age. The bottom (darker) pair are the wild type and the top two have mutations in a gene encoding a vacuolar-ATPase subunit, which causes the fish to have less pigment.

MIT researchers create first genetic 'recipe' for zebrafish

May 13, 2002

Cambridge, MIT are magnets for biotech

May 8, 2002

Facts on Cambridge, MIT and the biotech industry

May 6, 2002

Super-molecular assemblies: a film is made from phage and biosythesized nano-particles.

Viruses put to work making high-tech materials

May 2, 2002

Elsa Flores, a postdoctoral associate, works with cell cultures under the hood in Tyler Jacks' lab. Flores and Jacks recently identified genes involved in cellular suicide that may be key in cancer research.

Team identifies genes in cell suicide

April 10, 2002

New fellowships for doctoral candidates in biological engineering created by Biogen

April 3, 2002

Shulamit Levenberg, a postdoctoral associate in chemical engineering, surveys cell cultures at a microscope in the Langer lab.

Langer team reports source of cells for engineered human blood vessels

April 3, 2002

Key cell suicide gene has helpers, MIT team reports

April 3, 2002