Health sciences and technology

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

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

Bates researchers eye proton therapy for cancer

September 4, 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