Helping blood cells regenerate after radiation therapy
Method boosts differentiation of stem cells into mature blood cell types, may help leukemia and lymphoma patients.
Method boosts differentiation of stem cells into mature blood cell types, may help leukemia and lymphoma patients.
Four other MIT researchers to receive New Horizons Prizes in math and physics; two alumni win Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Deep-learning model has been used successfully on patients, may lead to more consistent screening procedures.
Biological engineers design RNA circuits that enable precise control over the dose of therapeutic protein a patient receives.
New MIT initiative delves into the biology of stem cells and cancer stem cells, seeks ways to identify, purify, and propagate them.
Lustgarten Foundation names MIT laboratory to improve understanding and treatment of a deadly disease
Research team shows the power of proteomics to discover new drug targets and help develop therapeutic strategies with fewer long-term side effects.
Matthew Vander Heiden seeks new cancer treatments that exploit tumor cells’ abnormal metabolism.
CSAIL wireless system suggests future where doctors could implant sensors to track tumors or even dispense drugs.
Machine-learning system determines the fewest, smallest doses that could still shrink brain tumors.
Hydrogen peroxide-sensing molecule reveals whether chemotherapy drugs are having their intended effects.
With new method, surgeons would remove tumor, then implant microparticles that attack remaining cancer cells.
Whitehead team deploys CRISPR tools to better understand and uncover ways of improving methotrexate, a popular chemotherapy drug.
Drugs carried in cellular “backpacks” help T cells to destroy tumors.
Researchers identify the amino acid aspartate as a metabolic limitation in certain cancers.