Health sciences and technology

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

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

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

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

Three faculty win '08 NIH Pioneer Awards

September 22, 2008

Nicholas Roy, left, assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and Seth Teller, professor of computer science and engineering, stand next to the robotic wheelchair they co-designed, which can be navigated by vocal command.

Robot wheelchair finds its own way

MIT invention responds to user's spoken commands

September 19, 2008

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