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Research Affiliate Stead Kiger (left) and Visiting Scientist Matthew Palmer prepare the patient for therapy. The mask immobilizes the patient's head during treatment.

Cancer therapy in trials stage

May 21, 2003

Poster created prior to 1979 promoting the importance of smallpox vaccination

MIT research may lead to smallpox drug

May 19, 2003

Process triggered by some cancer drugs causes tumors

May 14, 2003

Bob Yin

Pre-meds shadow medical mentors

April 16, 2003

Dr. Lori A. Wroble, ob-gyn chief at MIT Medical, says hormone replacement therapy helps most women in the first five years of menopause.

Hormone use is complex, especially for women

April 16, 2003

Shivani Reddy

Learning from experience: An alum gives advice

April 16, 2003

Hormone use 'complicated,' especially for women

April 10, 2003

Tongkat Ali, the tree that "cures 1,000 diseases."

Scientists identify Asian tree that 'cures 1,000 diseases'

April 9, 2003

Professor Michael Yaffee surveys a gel in his lab at the Center for Cancer Research.

Screen for protein developed at CCR revolutionizes proteomics

March 19, 2003

New library speeds search for antibodies and lowers cost

February 5, 2003

Research Affiliate Dongfang Liu and Associate Professor Ram Sasisekharan, shown here in the lab in 2002, are part of an MIT team whose research on complex sugars has has led to a variety of potential medical applications. This month the team, led by Sasisekharan, report the creation of designer drugs for preventing blood clots.

Bypass patients, drug industry benefit from research into sugars at MIT

January 13, 2003

MIT physicists play role in uncovering strings of toxic proteins in Alzheimer's

January 10, 2003

MIT researchers: high-carb supplement helps with weight loss

November 4, 2002

MIT researchers: high-carb supplement helps with weight loss

November 4, 2002

This machine to measure bone density is one of a number of technologies that MIT's General Clinical Research Center has to offer medical investigators. Lining up the patient and making her comfortable are Connie Pinto (left) and Ilene Horvitz.

Clinical research centers at MIT and Mass. General merge

October 30, 2002