Health sciences and technology

Scientist wins $500,000 cancer award

February 20, 2004

Scientists unlock life-extending secrets of calorie restriction

January 14, 2004

Low-tar cigarettes do not cut cancer risk

January 14, 2004

MIT study: Low-tar cigarettes do not cut lung cancer risk

January 8, 2004

Genetics savvy is transforming drug industry

December 17, 2003

Retina implant aims to help blind see

December 3, 2003

Professor David E. Housman and research scientist Amanda Shearman discuss some of the images they use in their work with gene variation and cardiovascular disease.

Heart attack risk associated with common genetic variation

November 5, 2003

Professor David E. Housman of biology, left, and Amanda Shearman, research scientist in the Center for Cancer Research, discuss some of the images they use in their work with gene variation and cardiovascular disease.

Genetic variation associated with higher heart attack risk

November 4, 2003

Assistant professor of physics Alexander van Oudenaarden surveys a slide that contains E. coli bacteria. The monitor shows an image of bacteria clumping, which they do when threatened.

Knowing bacteria's defense mechanism may foil them in the future

October 29, 2003

$Professor Michael Yaffe loads a tiny protein crystal onto an X-ray diffractometer machine to study its structure.$

New breast cancer gene mechanism found

October 29, 2003

Alexander van Oudenaarden, biophysicist and assistant professor of physics, surveys slide on which E.coli bacteria is present. On monitor behind him is an image of the clumping of bacteria that occurs when they are threatened.

Knowing bacteria's defense mechanism may foil them in the future

October 28, 2003

Broad Institute hopes to transform medical practice

October 22, 2003

Shulamit Levenberg, research associate in chemical engineering (left), and Professor Robert Langer survey 3-D scaffolds "seeded" with human embryonic stem cells.

Stem cells 'seeded' on polymer scaffold

October 22, 2003

MIT researcher Shulamit Levenberg, left, and Professor Robert Langer survey 3-D scaffolds "seeded" with human embryonic stem cells

MIT engineers report new approach to tissue engineering

October 14, 2003

MIT Medical considers enhanced services for women; OB/GYN shifted

October 8, 2003

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Scientists unlock life-extending secrets of calorie restriction

Low-tar cigarettes do not cut cancer risk

MIT study: Low-tar cigarettes do not cut lung cancer risk

Genetics savvy is transforming drug industry

Retina implant aims to help blind see

Heart attack risk associated with common genetic variation

Genetic variation associated with higher heart attack risk

Knowing bacteria's defense mechanism may foil them in the future

New breast cancer gene mechanism found

Knowing bacteria's defense mechanism may foil them in the future

Broad Institute hopes to transform medical practice

Stem cells 'seeded' on polymer scaffold

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