Health sciences and technology

Two student inventors take home national prizes

October 23, 2009

Left: Tumors are visible in the lungs of a mouse in which the NF-kappaB protein is not inhibited. Right: In the lungs of a mouse in which NF-kappaB is inhibited, tumor growth is significantly slowed. Images were taken at the Koch Institute Microscopy and Imaging Core Facility.

Protein is linked to lung cancer development

Drugs that inhibit the protein, which normally helps defend cells from infection, could target tumors in certain lung cancer patients.

October 22, 2009

MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals presents new 'Flu 101' web site

October 1, 2009

Of Note: MIT professors win NIH grants aimed at spurring innovative research

September 24, 2009

In Profile: Leonard Guarente

Biology professor discovered a gene at the center of aging. Now that research is yielding therapies that target the diseases of old age.

September 15, 2009

Singapore course adds education component to MIT's research efforts in Asia

August 17, 2009

A new way to prepare fluorinated pharmaceuticals

New method gives drug designers more flexibility

August 13, 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

The image at top depicts a healthy collagen fibril. The image below it depicts a fibril with brittle bone disease displaying the small rifts (in orange) that form in collagen tissue at the sites where an incorrect amino acid has been substituted for glycine. These tiny rifts lead to the brittle tissue, broken bones and deformity characteristic of the disease.

Tiny rifts create fragility of brittle bone disease

August 4, 2009

Nanoparticles target ovarian cancer

New gene therapy technique could fight late-stage tumors

July 30, 2009

Professor Elazer Edelman, Natalie Artzi, Aaron Baker and Adriana Bon in the lab with a surgical adhesive they have developed.

MIT team aims to tailor surgical glues for specific applications

Researchers look to match material to tissue properties

July 9, 2009

C. elegans expressing red fluorescent protein in dopamine neurons and green fluorescent protein in dopamine receptor-expressing neurons.

Researchers find new actions of neurochemicals

Work with tiny worm could point to new treatments for human brain disorders

July 2, 2009

An image of the H1N1 influenza virus taken in the CDC Influenza Laboratory.

MIT, CDC find H1N1 flu virus ill-suited for rapid transmission

But researchers say new strain bears watching, could mutate

July 2, 2009

Extending the shelf life of antibody drugs

New model allows researchers to design more stable drugs

June 29, 2009

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