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Experts tackle issues raised by race-based drugs

April 5, 2006

Tyler Jacks

Jacks earns top cancer award

April 4, 2006

Professors Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Peter K. Sorger and Michael B. Yaffe share a moment together in Sorger's lab. The three members of MIT's Center for Cancer Research led a team of scientists that has found links between inflammatory disease and cancer.

Studies link cancer, inflammatory disease

March 29, 2006

Research scientist Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, left, and Professor Gerald E. Schneider, both of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, worked with others to create a technique that helps rodents recover from traumatic brain injuries. The monitor shows a microscopic view of the brain repair.

MIT researchers restore vision in rodents blinded by brain damage

March 13, 2006

Ruth Bodner, a postdoctoral fellow in MIT's Center for Cancer Research, has discovered a compound that could lead to the development of a new treatment for Huntington's disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder.

Research holds promise for Huntington's treatment

March 6, 2006

MIT method reveals how radiation damages the body

February 28, 2006

MIT researchers have found that synchronized neurons speed up attention. The color scale in these graphs indicates the degree of synchronized activity of neurons in the monkey's V4 area of the visual cortex. The more the neurons fire in synchrony (red), the faster the monkey notices a small color change in an attended picture (348 instead of 498 milliseconds).

Neurons in sync focus attention, researchers find

February 24, 2006

'Mad cow protein' found to aid creation of brain cells

February 16, 2006

This confocal microscopy image shows activity in the rat brain, with the retinal nerve pathway showing green and the functional synapses appearing yellow.

Eyes wide shut: McGovern research sheds light on visual circuits

February 14, 2006

Picower Institute research indicates rats mentally replay their most recent actions--in reverse. The study may shed light on mechanisms of learning and memory.

Picower researcher explains how rats think

February 12, 2006

Robert Langer

Inventors Hall of Fame to induct 2 professors

February 9, 2006

Structure of epilson15 bacteriophage, a virus that infects Salmonella. One end of the DNA genome (blue) is poised for injection into a host cell.

New images capture virus in extraordinary detail

February 8, 2006

Blood researchers multiply adult stem cells

January 23, 2006

Researchers offer logistics fix to flu outbreaks

December 29, 2005

Aspergillus nidulans

Broad researchers help complete fungal genomic sequences

December 28, 2005