Health sciences and technology

Brain activity in East Asians and Americans as they make relative and absolute judgments. The arrows point to brain regions involved in attention that are engaged by more demanding tasks. Americans show more activity during relative judgments than absolute judgments, presumably because the former task is less familiar and hence more demanding for them. East Asians show the opposite pattern.

Culture influences brain function, study shows

January 11, 2008

Gift aims to promote new Picower collaborations

January 10, 2008

Transmission electron micrograph of avian influenza A H5N1 viruses (purple) released from infected human cell (blue).

MIT finds key to avian flu in humans

January 6, 2008

Mark Bear, director of the Picower Institute and Picower Professor of Neuroscience (right), and GÃ¼l DÃ¶len, a graduate student at Brown University, report the correction of fragile X syndrome in mice.

MIT corrects inherited retardation, autism in mice

Research points to potential drug treatment for humans

December 19, 2007

Graduate student Christopher Bettinger and Robert Langer, Institute Professor and professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, have developed a way to make capillaries grow on a nano-patterned surface.

MIT works toward engineered blood vessels

Vessels could be used in human body

December 17, 2007

HST faculty member wins BMW Science Award

December 12, 2007

The cycle by which MIT/Whitehead scientists successfully treated mice with a human sickle-cell anemia disease trait, using a process that begins by directly reprogramming the mice's own cells to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state.

MIT corrects sickle-cell anemia in mice

Research involves reprogramming adult cells

December 7, 2007

Missing protein may be key to autism

December 5, 2007

From left, Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Edwin Thomas, who is also department head, Professor Patrick Doyle of chemical engineering and materials science postdoc Ji-Hyun Jang. The researchers have designed a technique to control the size, shape and texture of microparticles.

Sculpted 3-D particles could aid diagnostics, tissue engineering

December 4, 2007

War-injured boy inspired new Marshall Scholar

December 4, 2007

Carlos Lois and colleagues have found that adult stem cells produced in the brain are preprogrammed to make only certain kinds of connections. Lois is an assistant professor of neuroscience in MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.

MIT: stem-cell therapies for brain more complicated than thought

November 30, 2007

Genomic study of malaria parasite unearths surprising behaviors

November 28, 2007

Machine that Celsion (Canada) Limited plans to use in the next clinical trial of a thermotherapy treatment for breast cancer developed at MIT.

MIT radar technology fights breast cancer

Clinical results using microwave heat treatments are promising

November 28, 2007

Scientists decode genomes of tuberculosis microbes

Work could aid research on drug-resistant TB

November 26, 2007

'Cocktail' of compounds improves brain function in rodents

Treatment undergoing a clinical study in Alzheimer's patients