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In this image, a fragment of the antibody Erbitux (cetuximab) binds to its target, a fragment of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). The blue ribbon at the top is the backbone of the EGFR fragment, and the red and gray ribbons at the bottom are the backbone of the antibody fragment. The licorice sticks and the balls in the central portion represent protein side chains making close interaction...

MIT model could improve some drugs' effectiveness

September 23, 2007

Graduate student Conor Walsh demonstrates a prototype of the 'exoskeleton' he and other MIT researchers have devised. The invention can successfully take on 80 percent of an 80-pound load carried on a person's back.

21st-century pack mule: MIT's 'exoskeleton' lightens the load

September 19, 2007

Four MIT faculty win NIH awards

September 18, 2007

East meets West

Armed with 4 MIT degrees, Shiva Ayyadurai embarks on new adventure

September 17, 2007

Professor Hugh Herr of the Media Lab is shown here addressing h2.0, a one-day symposium in May 2007 that focused on ushering in a new era in human adaptability.

Herr wins $250,000 Heinz Award

September 12, 2007

Chi-Sang Poon (left), principal research scientist in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, stands next to Shawna MacDonald of mechanical engineering and Gang Song, an HST research scientist. The group has found that the body's innate ability to adapt to recurring stimuli may help in designing better artificial respirators.

Leveraging learning for artificial respiration

MIT research could lead to better, more cost-efficient ventilators

September 11, 2007

An MIT team has created polymer-DNA nanoparticles to deliver disease-fighting genes . From left are Daniel Anderson, a research associate at the MIT Center for Cancer Research, bioengineering graduate student Jordan Green and Greg Zugates, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering.

MIT works toward safer gene therapy

Biodegradable polymers replace viruses to deliver genes

September 7, 2007

Drawings of visual objects by a stroke victim known as BL. When a stimulus appears just below BL's blind area, the shape elongates upwards and into the blind area. He perceived circles as cigar shaped, squares as rectangles, and triangles as pencil shaped.

Adult brain can change, study confirms

Work could aid interventions following stroke

September 5, 2007

The dramatic appearance of a red tide algal bloom at Leigh, near Cape Rodney, New Zealand.

Scientists at MIT unraveling the secrets of red tide

August 30, 2007

From left: Kamran Badizadegan, principal research scientist; Wonshik Choi, postdoc; and Michael Feld, physics professor and director of the MIT Spectroscopy Lab. The three have found a way to create 3D images of the inner workings of cells, as illustrated on monitor in front of them.

MIT creates 3D images of living cell

August 12, 2007

MIT post-doc Joel Neilson, left, graduate student Margaret Ebert and Institute Professor Phillip Sharp have developed a new technique to study the function of microRNA that could shed light on the genetic material's hypothesized role in cancer.

MIT's MicroRNA 'sponges' could aid cancer studies

August 12, 2007

Memory formation in children, adolescents and young adults: Brain activation in the medial temporal lobe (lower brain scans) remains constant while activation in the prefrontal cortex (upper brain scans) increases from childhood to adulthood when successfully memorizing pictures with rich detail.

MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories

August 5, 2007

MIT adds new graduate program in microbiology

August 2, 2007

Steven Shannon, operations manager and MR research technologist at MIT, with the 9.4 Tesla MRI machine in the Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute.

New high-resolution MRI machine comes to MIT

July 31, 2007

Douglas Lauffenburger, director of Biological Engineering, with a schematic of the intracellular "information-processing" circuit on the monitor in front of him.

MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs

Work could lead to targeted therapies

July 26, 2007

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