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Cancer hijacks body's wound-healing process

May 20, 2005

These DNA dots, each only about 200 nanometers in diameter, were printed using a new 'nano-printing' technique developed at MIT.

New technique may speed DNA analysis

May 18, 2005

Langer wins top prize in medicine

April 29, 2005

MIT launches Center for Biomedical Innovation

April 29, 2005

Robert Langer

Intelligent plastics change shape with light

April 13, 2005

Tissue engineering: A real growth field

April 1, 2005

David Bartel

Hughes Institute honors Bartel

March 22, 2005

Researchers identify target for cancer drugs

March 14, 2005

Rest easy: MIT study confirms melatonin's value as sleep aid

March 1, 2005

David Berry won the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his inventiveness in the medical lab.

HST student wins $30,000 Lemelson Prize

February 16, 2005

Broad Institute researchers David Altshuler, left, Wendy Winckler, Stacey Gabriel and colleagues have found that the gene-swapping locations in human and chimpanzee genomes are entirely different.

Surprising difference found between human and chimp genomes

February 11, 2005

Images of human brains, based directly on data from an MRI machine, show the regions of the brain that are activated by peripheral visual stimuli in a person with normal vision and in a person with macular degeneration. People with macular degeneration lack central vision and must use peripheral vision only. The area at the back of the brain (marked by the white ovals) that normally responds only ...

Macular degeneration accompanied by significant brain reorganization

January 19, 2005

In these endometriosis lesions from the mouse model of endometriosis, both endometriotic glands (arrow) and stroma (arrowhead) are shown.

Endometriosis and ovarian cancer modeled in mouse

January 7, 2005

Cells that have damaged DNA in their nuclei (gray dots) normally stop dividing. However, the two cells for which MAPKAP Kinase-2 activity has been inhibited still undergo cell division (red stain), even in the presence of DNA damage (green stain).

MIT team aims to reduce chemo doses

January 6, 2005

MIT-led team: viruses change shape to infect us

December 21, 2004