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MIT prof: Oceans at risk if policy tool not restricted

October 18, 2001

Talk on stem cells rescheduled for today

October 3, 2001

In the latest in a series of findings on highly specific brain functions by Nancy Kanwisher, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, researchers have identified the extrastriate body area (EBA) in the brain. The EBA responds strongly to pictures of body parts such as those pictured on the left, and does not respond strongly to similarly shaped images such as those on the right.

MIT researchers find brain region that responds to images of the human body

September 27, 2001

Researchers from around the world gathered at the Capsis Hotel in Crete to discuss exciting new applications for peptides, the designer materials of the future. MIT participants included (front row, left to right) senior Pei-Hsin Lin, postdoctoral associates Kimberly Hamad and Wonmuk Hwang, Professor Alexander Rich and conference co-organizer Shuguang Zhang, associate director of the Center for Bi...

Peptide/protein self-assembly applications touted at conference

September 12, 2001

Daley of Whitehead will discuss science of stem cells

September 12, 2001

Initial results promising for breast cancer treatment

September 12, 2001

MIT senior Pei-Hsin Lin was one of the conference attendees.

Student dives into conference

September 12, 2001

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Susan L. Lindquist elected new director of Whitehead

August 15, 2001

Study shows normal-looking clones may be abnormal

July 18, 2001

Graduate student Peter Reddien (left) and Professor Bob Horvitz of biology made a discovery about programmed cell death in C. elegans roundworms.

Researchers find active new role for cell 'undertakers' in cells deaths

July 18, 2001

MIT researchers find active new role for cell 'undertakers' in cell death

July 11, 2001

Artificial enzyme able to synthesize RNA in Whitehead lab

June 13, 2001

Biology department recognizes five

June 6, 2001

Finding speeds discovery of disease genes, population history

June 6, 2001

Scientists build better mouse model for cancer

May 9, 2001