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To detect and destroy an enemy missile, microwave energy is targeted on the missile while simultaneously nullifying enemy jammers (left). To kill a cancerous tumor (right), microwave energy is focused on the tumor while simultaneously nullifying any energy that would overheat surrounding healthy tissue.

MIT radar research used to treat breast cancer enters Phase II trials

January 10, 2001

MIT radar technology to treat breast cancer

December 20, 2000

At Monday's inauguration of the Fission Converter Epithermal Neutron Irradiation Facility, Professor Otto Harling (center) discusses the facility with Dr. Constantine Maletskos (left), a member of the MIT Reactor Safeguards Committee, and Lincoln Clark Jr., former associate director of the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory.

Ceremony inaugurates cancer treatment facility at MIT

December 6, 2000

Rajesh Ranganathan (left) and Professor H. Robert Horvitz have discovered a fast receptor in worms that responds to serotonin.

Newfound receptor responds to serotonin

December 6, 2000

James Biggs, postdoctoral associate in the Research Lab of Electronics (left), Professor Mandayam Srinivasan, director of MIT's Touch Lab, and mechanical engineering graduate student Jung Kim observe the movement of a robotic arm driven by signals from a monkey at Duke University.

Monkey controls robotic arm using brain signals sent over Internet

December 6, 2000

Roberto Accorsi, a doctoral candidate in nuclear engineering, uses a Coded Aperture Camera for medical imaging.

Airport detection research yields better medical imaging

November 8, 2000

HST helps launch imaging partnership with Mass. General

November 8, 2000

New online guide helps families determine when to retire car keys

November 8, 2000

Stephen Mascaro, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, displays a fingernail sensor designed to replace input from a keyboard or mouse.

Lab showcases health care, robotic projects

November 1, 2000

Kim and Weinberg elected to Institute of Medicine

October 25, 2000

Protein found to detect kidney failure early

October 25, 2000

Five get HST's Taplin Award for research

October 25, 2000

AgeLab aims to make life easier for elderly

October 18, 2000

Research shows why less food means longer life for yeast

September 27, 2000

MIT researcher sheds light on why cutting calories keeps organisms alive and healthier for longer

September 21, 2000