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James Fergason has been named the 2006 winner of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the largest cash prize in the United States for invention. Fergason's work led to the creation of liquid crystal displays.

Lemelson-MIT awards prizes for innovation

May 3, 2006

Scientists find key to adaptability of embryonic stem cells

April 24, 2006

New map reveals secret of stem cell development

April 21, 2006

From left, Professors Yet-Ming Chiang, Angela Belcher and Paula Hammond display a virus-loaded film that can serve as the anode of a battery.

Researchers build tiny batteries with viruses

April 7, 2006

New tools enable large-scale studies of gene function

April 7, 2006

Tyler Jacks

Jacks earns top cancer award

April 4, 2006

MIT marine biologists Ed DeLong and Penny Chisholm check out an ocean water sample. Researchers in Chisholm's lab have shown that gene-swapping takes place among ocean plankton and resembles the flow of genes known to occur among disease-causing bacteria.

Researchers: Oceans are a major gene swap-meet for plankton

March 23, 2006

Thousands of different types of microbes inhabit every cubic centimeter of seawater. Most of the organisms in this picture are about 1/2 of a micrometer, or thousandth of a meter, wide.

Microbe DNA helps scientists understand ocean

February 22, 2006

Structure of epilson15 bacteriophage, a virus that infects Salmonella. One end of the DNA genome (blue) is poised for injection into a host cell.

New images capture virus in extraordinary detail

February 8, 2006

Blood researchers multiply adult stem cells

January 23, 2006

Cloned stem cells prove identical to fertilized stem cells

January 16, 2006

Aspergillus nidulans

Broad researchers help complete fungal genomic sequences

December 28, 2005

Blood researchers find mechanism behind disease

December 19, 2005

David C. Page

Page named Whitehead director

December 8, 2005

Dogs of different breeds look up at a photo of James Watson and Francis Crick with a model of the structure of DNA. Researchers have just announced they have sequenced the dog genome.

Dog genome sequence announced

December 7, 2005