Health sciences and technology

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

Why chemo works for some people and not others

MIT cell findings could predict individuals' responses

September 18, 2008

Glenn Foundation gift creates new lab for the science of aging

September 9, 2008

<a href="http://cvcl.mit.edu/MM/demo.html" target="_blank">Demo of massive memory study</a>

MIT researchers find memory capacity much bigger than previously thought

September 8, 2008

From left to right, Broad Institute Director Eric Lander, MIT President Susan Hockfield, Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, Eli and Edythe Broad, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Nobel Laureate David Baltimore of Caltech at the Sept. 4 press conference announcing the Broad's $400 million gift.

Philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad make unprecedented gift to endow the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

$400 million endowment gift brings total commitment to $600 million; Novel experiment in new way of doing science declared early success

September 4, 2008

Bates researchers eye proton therapy for cancer

September 4, 2008

Manalis a winner of new NIH grant

EUREKA program seeks to unleash revolutionary science

September 3, 2008

From left, graduate student YongKeun Park, School of Engineering Dean Subra Suresh, Professor Michael Feld, and postdocs Monica Diez-Silva, George Lykotrafitis and Wonshik Choi stand in the MIT Spectroscopy Laboratory. The group has used microscopy techniques to show in unprecedented detail how the malaria parasite attacks red blood cells.

MIT zooms in on malaria-infected cells

Work could aid in diagnostics, drug testing

September 1, 2008

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

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