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Andy Wijaya, an MIT graduate student in chemical engineering, prepares a gold nanorod solution for pump-probe spectroscopy with (standing, left to right) postdoc Aaron Schmidt and professors Gang Chen and Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli observing.

Beyond jewelry: Engineering new uses for gold

MIT researchers see precious metal's value in war on cancer, other applications

August 22, 2008

MIT zeroes in on Alzheimer's structures

Work could lead to new drugs for the common disease

August 21, 2008

HST's Karp among Technology Review's top young innovators

August 19, 2008

Not quite a teen, not fully an adult

New MIT report sheds light on young adults' triumphs, traumas

August 1, 2008

Alzheimer's treatment shows promise in clinical trials

Danone drink based on MIT work does well in first human tests.

July 29, 2008

A sensible censor for sharing medical records

MIT-developed software helps protect patient privacy

July 23, 2008

Winners of the 2008 Biocant Ventures Prize from the MIT Portugal Program's Bio-Teams, from left: researcher John Jones and students David Malta, Mariana Fernandes and Tatiana Aguiar.

MIT Portugal students win entrepreneurship competition

Invention could help diagnose muscle wasting

July 23, 2008

Coronal sections of injured adult spinal cord, anterior to posterior. The labelling shows recombined ependymal cells and their progeny (white) migrating out to the injury area in the dorsal funiculus, as a reponse to the injury (injury is in the image on the right hand corner). The mouse is a FoxJ1-CreER x R26R-LacZ reporter.

Spinal cord stem cells could be basis of new treatment

July 21, 2008

MIT engineers used a new imaging technique to pinpoint the locations of mouse pancreatic cells with a specific mutation. The blue dots represent pancreatic cell nuclei, and the cells within the yellow cluster express the mutation.

MIT researchers offer glimpse of rare mutant cells

Imaging system may help understand origins of cancer

July 21, 2008

Cutting costs one image at a time

DUSP professor wins grant to study non-necessary medical imaging

July 17, 2008

Graduate student Erez Lieberman is working on an "iShoe" which uses technology developed by NASA to create an insole that could help elderly people keep their balance and prevent falls.

Balance problems? Step into the iShoe

MIT grad student's invention could one day prevent falls

July 16, 2008

Individual proteins converge to form the distinctive shape of mitochondria.

Team unveils 'parts list' of cell powerhouse

July 11, 2008

Study points to dietary cocktail for Alzheimer's

Supplement improves memory, learning in gerbils

July 8, 2008

MIT researchers see alternative to common colorectal cancer drug

June 17, 2008

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, winner of the Millennium Technology Prize for 2008.

Langer wins Millennium Technology Prize

June 11, 2008

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