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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

'Cocktail' of compounds improves brain function in rodents

Treatment undergoing a clinical study in Alzheimer's patients

November 26, 2007

Scientists decode genomes of tuberculosis microbes

Work could aid research on drug-resistant TB

November 26, 2007

Leona Samson, left, and Dr. Rebecca Fry have found that prenatal exposure to arsenic leads to alarming changes in the genetics of newborn babies. Samson is the director of MIT's Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) and the American Cancer Society Professor in the Departments of Biological Engineering and Biology. Fry is assistant scientific director of CEHS.

Prenatal arsenic exposure detected in newborns

Research could lead to test for screening populations for the poison

November 22, 2007

Here, dark gray nanoparticles carry different drug payloads (one red, one green). A remotely generated five-minute pulse of a low-energy electromagnetic field releases the green drug but not the red. A five-minute pulse of a higher-energy electromagnetic field releases the red drug, which had been tethered using a DNA strand twice as long as the green tether, as measured in base pairs.

Remote-control nanoparticles deliver drugs directly into tumors

November 20, 2007

Liver cells in the micropatterned co-culture form tube-like structures (shown here in green) that resemble bile capillaries found in a human liver.

'Micro' livers could aid drug screening

November 19, 2007

MIT and India to create health science and technology institute

November 19, 2007

MIT to host "Frontiers in Modern Microscopy" workshop Nov. 20

November 16, 2007

Lindquist researches new role for yeast

November 14, 2007

Study charts genomic landscape of lung cancer

November 7, 2007

Professor Morgan Sheng, Menicon Professor of Neuroscience at MIT's Picower Center for Learning and Memory, joins post-doc Myung Jong Kim, right, in the lab. They have shown how manipulating a brain scaffolding protein called PSD-95 could boost cognitive function.

MIT IDs enzymes key to brainpower

Research could inform treatments for Alzheimer's patients

November 7, 2007

This figure from an atomistic model shows a protein in the process of unwinding in response to pressure.

Speed plays crucial role in breaking protein's H-bonds

November 7, 2007

MIT pair honored for biopsy advance

November 6, 2007

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