Health sciences and technology

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

Nanotechnology expert wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

June 24, 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

Study takes aim at opportunistic fungal pathogens

Research provides genome sequences and critical analyses of key Candida species

June 18, 2009

Newly formed Ragon Institute hosts symposium on computational immunology

June 18, 2009

Li-Huei Tsai to direct Picower Institute

June 12, 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

Blocking termites' defense mechanisms

Targeting immune system may offer sustainable pest control method

June 8, 2009