Cancer

This schematic drawing shows the sensor Manalis and colleagues built to weigh single cells. Cells flow through a channel (dark blue lines) that carries them to the end of a vibrating cantilever and back.

In Profile: Scott Manalis

His technology to weigh single cells led to an unexpected research focus: figuring out how cancerous cells escape normal growth controls.

September 23, 2009

In a comparison of a control to the chemical identified by the Weinberg/Lander team, called salinomycin, the tumor cells (stained dark purple in both slides) were unaffected by the control, but salinomycin killed many tumor cells (stained pink).

Taking aim at aggressive cancer cells

Researchers use novel stem-cell method to discover chemical with potency against breast tumors in mice

August 13, 2009

Tumor mutations can predict chemo success

Genetic profiling of tumors could have 'immediate impact' on treating cancer, study shows

August 6, 2009

Nanoparticles target ovarian cancer

New gene therapy technique could fight late-stage tumors

July 30, 2009

Frank Gertler, professor of biology at MIT, speaks during this year's Koch Institute symposium on "Understanding Metastasis."

Koch Institute symposium targets tumor metastasis

June 22, 2009

In mice, the loss of microRNA miR-31 allows cancer cells to spread to the lungs more easily than cancer cells with miR-31. The edge of the cancer tumors lacking miR-31 are also less defined than tumors containing cells with higher levels of miR-31.

RNA snippet suppresses spread of aggressive breast cancer

June 12, 2009

Recent PhD recipient Christophoros Vassiliou, right, holds the cancer monitoring device that he and Professor Michael Cima, left, and recent PhD recipient Grace Kim developed.

Implantable device offers continuous cancer monitoring

New device could track tumor's growth

May 12, 2009

MIT researchers used these gold nanorods that absorb energy from near-infrared light and emit it as heat, destroying cancer cells.

Targeting tumors using tiny gold particles

Gold nanorods could detect, treat cancer

May 4, 2009

Structural diagram of (+)-11,11'-Dideoxyverticillin A. MIT chemists recently synthesized the compound, which has shown anti-cancer activity, for the first time.

Chemists synthesize fungal compound with anti-cancer activity

April 24, 2009

New test can predict spread of breast cancer

May help to reduce over- and under-treatment of the disease

March 24, 2009

Q&A with Richard Hynes on stem cell funding

March 18, 2009

Lifting the ban

March 10, 2009

New gel offers controlled drug delivery

Self-assembling hydrogel could help treat cancer and diabetes, among other diseases

March 9, 2009

Whitehead Institute researchers reprogrammed human skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients into an embryonic-stem-cell-like state. After removing the reprogramming genes, the scientists used these so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to create dopamine-producing neurons, the cell type that degenerates in Parkinson's disease patients.Â To confirm that the iPS cells had become dopam...

Potential cancer-causing genes removed from engineered stem cells

Whitehead work involved reprogrammed skin cells from Parkinson's patient

March 5, 2009

Gold star

Geoffrey von Maltzahn awarded $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for innovations in fight against cancer

March 3, 2009

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