Health sciences and technology

Top image depicts the chemical structure of chondroitin sulfate, the contaminant found in batches of heparin. Bottom image shows the chemical structure of normal heparin.

Conclusive evidence that tainted heparin caused allergic reactions

Epidemiological study provides the final link

December 3, 2008

From left to right: Richard Maulsby (United States Patent and Trademark Office), Timothy Lu (grand winner, MIT), Greg Schroll (undergraduate winner, MIT), Paul Podsiadlo (graduate winner, University of Michigan), Neil Conan (NPR host) and Jeff Pan (Abbott representative who was also a judge).

MIT students take top prizes in national inventors' contest

Lu awarded $25,000 grand prize, Schroll takes top undergraduate honors

November 21, 2008

A new class of catalysts

November 16, 2008

By studying songbirds, McGovern's Professor Michale Fee, left, and post-doc Michael Long move closer to understanding how timing is represented within the brain.

Singing in slow motion

MIT work with songbirds could aid study of humans' timing

November 12, 2008

Head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Paul E Newton (1965) Professor of Neuroscience Mriganka Sur, left, led a toast to newly named Institute Professor Ann Graybiel, along with Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute, at a party given in Graybiel's honor.

Ann Graybiel named Institute Professor

November 3, 2008

J. Christopher Love, Craig Story, Chih-Chi Andrew Hu and Eliseo Papa designed and tested a system that "prints" the antibodies created by immune cells onto a glass slide, below, coated with capture antibodies, producing protein microarrays.

Immunity, from the cell's point of view

Chemical engineers study immune cells in unprecedented detail

November 3, 2008

Dr.Chi-Sang Poon, principal research scientist at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) discovers new mechanism that controls respiration.
"This is a beautiful example of a yin-yang relationship," said Poon, with pacemakers exciting and inhibiting one another. "You want to be stable so you can have harmony."
Here Dr. Poon stands by a Yin-Yang water sculpture he apprecia...

Setting the pace

MIT pieces together the mechanism that allows two pacemakers to control breathing

November 3, 2008

Principal research scientist with Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Lisa Freed, left, and George Engelmayr Jr., post-doc in Harvard-MIT Health Sciences report new scaffold (shown on monitor)for tissue engineering of the heart.

Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering

New scaffold approach could also aid engineering of other tissues

November 2, 2008

MIT neuroscience bolstered by new faculty, viral core facility

October 27, 2008

CBI hosting Oct. 23 roundtable on drug safety

October 20, 2008

Computer model reveals cells' inner workings

New approach could help tailor chemotherapy treatments

October 16, 2008

Whitehead director Page named to the Institute of Medicine

October 14, 2008

Broad Institute awarded major grant

October 1, 2008

Sniffing out success

MIT engineers mass-produce smell receptors in lab; 'artificial noses' to follow?

September 29, 2008

View of C. elegans worm in which neurons (green) and muscles (red) that control egg laying have been genetically labeled.

Worms provide clues for treating brain diseases

September 24, 2008

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Ann Graybiel named Institute Professor

Immunity, from the cell's point of view

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Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering

MIT neuroscience bolstered by new faculty, viral core facility

CBI hosting Oct. 23 roundtable on drug safety

Computer model reveals cells' inner workings

Whitehead director Page named to the Institute of Medicine

Broad Institute awarded major grant

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