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MIT technique reveals inner lives of red blood cells

Work could aid research on sickle cell anemia and malaria

October 16, 2006

Genetic 'roadmap' charts links between drugs and human disease

September 29, 2006

$100 million grant funds research center

September 21, 2006

MIT announces major new campus development program

September 13, 2006

MIT proton treatment could replace x-ray use in radiation therapy

August 28, 2006

MIT graduate student Yelena Margolin is the lead researcher on new work on inflammation. She is shown working in the lab with Professor Peter Dedon.

DNA damage study probes inflammation, disease link

July 25, 2006

Robopsy, a new invention designed to help doctors do needle biopsies, is shown as it might be positioned for surgery. Robopsy was invented by a team of graduate students, including two from MIT.

New device offers assist in needle biopsies

July 19, 2006

Researchers tracked the movement of human prostate tumor cells, such as the one at left, in a 3-D matrix, right.

Whitehead brings new dimension to cancer research

July 12, 2006

Cancer symposium packs Kresge

June 29, 2006

Cancer Center highlights past, present research

June 26, 2006

Chromosomes (blue) are shown being pulled apart by microtubules (red). The two yellow spots are the organizing centers required for assembling microtubules. MIT researchers recently pinpointed two proteins that are key to normal cell division.

MIT sheds light on how tumor cells form

June 20, 2006

Public database aids drug researchers

May 30, 2006

From left, Todd Harris, graduate student in the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences & Technology (HST), Sangeeta Bhatia, professor in HST, and Geoffrey von Maltzahn, graduate student in HST, view two solutions of enzyme-activated nanoparticles. The enzymes cause the nanoparticles to self-assemble into large aggregates that fall out of solution.

MIT nanoparticles may help detect, treat tumors

May 1, 2006

Cancer research funding called key

NCI head gives talk

April 25, 2006

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, seated, joins Dr. Omid C. Farokhzad and researcher Benjamin A. Teply beside a monitor displaying an image of nanoparticles on Friday, March 31. The three are among a team of researchers that showed nanoparticles could be custom designed to destroy cancer cells.

Nanoparticles armed to combat cancer

April 10, 2006

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