Health sciences and technology

Picower study points to a genetic link for schizophrenia

February 20, 2007

Gilliam fellowship winner is committed to health research and outreach

February 13, 2007

Postdoctoral fellow Christian Reinhardt, left, and Professor Michael Yaffe of MIT's Center for Cancer Research have identified a defense mechanism that helps tumor cells survive chemotherapy.

New drug may dissolve tumors' defense against chemotherapy

February 12, 2007

MIT Workplace Center publishes elder care handbook

February 9, 2007

Graduate student Jianping Fu (left), Professor Jongyoon Han and postdoc Reto Schoch have created a microchip system that allows speedy separation and sorting of biomolecules.

MIT improves protein sorting with a new microchip

February 5, 2007

Team develops nanoparticles to battle cancer

New particles mimic platelets

February 1, 2007

Image at left shows process of detecting and destroying an enemy missile using MIT targeted radar. Microwave energy is fixed on a missile while simultaneously nullifying enemy jammers. On right, microwave energy is aimed at a cancerous tumor with a deep focused beam while simultaneously nullifying any energy that would overheat surrounding healthy tissue.

New book documents MIT breast cancer therapy

January 26, 2007

Wrinkled hard skin on polymer surface induced by focused ion beam. The wrinkles are hierarchical with the primary wavelength of 465 nm.

Scientists create wrinkled polymer 'skin'

January 25, 2007

Andrea Ventura, an MIT postdoctoral associate, works in the lab at the Center for Cancer Research. He and his colleagues have shown that by reactivating a certain gene, cancerous tumors in mice can be drastically reduced in size.

Reactivated gene shrinks tumors, MIT study finds

January 24, 2007

CEHS hosts gene-environment symposium Jan. 26

January 24, 2007

Discovery could lead to new therapies for autoimmune diseases

January 22, 2007

Flu vaccine shortages can be avoided, MIT engineers say

December 27, 2006

MIT creates 3D scaffold for growing stem cells

December 27, 2006

Susan Lindquist called in colleagues to see if her findings in yeast would hold up in animals with neurons and brains.

Parkinson's disease process may be curtailed by regenerative processes in yeast, fruit flies

Whitehead researcher leads multi-institutional team

December 11, 2006

Sarah Volkman, left, Dyann Wirth, center, and Pardis Sabeti, right, developed the new genetic map for malaria research.

Genetic map offers new tool for malaria research

Parasite's DNA has nearly 47,000 genetic variations worldwide; kills every 30 seconds