Cancer

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

Highlights of the Koch Institute Topping-Off Ceremony

February 20, 2009

RNA interference can suppress ovarian tumor growth

Study offers promise for new cancer treatments

February 9, 2009

The image on the left shows a sample from a normal prostate, with organized cells lining the O-shaped ductules. Â Mice without theÂ PTENÂ gene had developed cancer, which is characterized by enlarged glands and disorganized cells clogging the ductules (middle image). Â When mTORC2 activity is blocked in mice lacking the PTENÂ gene, the prostate ductulesÂ resemble the appearance of norm...

Preventing prostate cancer the complex way

February 2, 2009

Nitric oxide shown to cause colon cancer

Study offers proof of compound's role in disease

January 19, 2009

Chemistry graduate student Weerawat Runguphan, left, Sarah E. O'Connor, Latham Family Career Development Associate Professor of Chemistry, rear, and chemistry graduate student Peter Bernhardt, right, in lab where they genetically engineered periwinkle plant cells.

Chemists engineer plants to produce new compounds

Periwinkle plant cells could synthesize potential drugs

January 18, 2009

Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Information Systems in the School of Management and Director of CCI Thomas W. Malone.

Putting heads (and computers) together to solve global problems

MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) looks to take advantage of strength in numbers

January 13, 2009

Post-doc in biological engineering Seok Chung points to view of cell-growth as Roger Kamm, professor of biological and mechanical engineering, right, and chemical engineering graduate student Vernella Vickerman look on.

Close encounters with 3-D cell growth

Engineers' new microfluidic device could help with drug development

December 16, 2008

This image shows the cell before hydrogen peroxide is added.

Nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells

Chemical engineers use carbon nanotubes to monitor chemotherapy, detect toxins at the single-molecule level

December 14, 2008

Reversing the conventional DNA wisdom

Researchers find DNA is transcribed by divergent polymerases

December 4, 2008

Senior Paul Blascovich watches surgical robot operating from left, while teaching assistant Lael Odhner plays with arm. Junior Tony McDonald watches from back, Junior Ian Rust and instructor Harrison Chin watch from center and right of "patient."

Going under the (robotic) knife

Engineering students design robots to remove tumors

November 17, 2008

MIT researchers have developed a technique to attach tiny polymer "backpacks" to cells. This immune system cells, a B lymphocyte sports one. The scale bar is 10 micrometers.

Tiny backpacks for cells

Polymer patches could ferry drugs, assist in cancer diagnosis

November 6, 2008

Untangling DNA regulation

Biologists theorize role for DNA packaging in stem cell development