Finding blood clots before they wreak havoc
Simple urine test developed by MIT engineers uses nanotechnology to detect dangerous blood clotting.
Koch Institute
New view of dengue fever
Mice with human immune cells help researchers discover how the mosquito-borne virus depletes blood platelets.
Nanoparticle vaccine offers better protection
Particles that deliver vaccines directly to mucosal surfaces could defend against many infectious diseases.
Why tumors become drug-resistant
New findings could lead to drugs that fight back when tumors don’t respond to treatment.
New way to target an old foe: malaria
Engineered liver tissue developed at MIT could help scientists test new drugs and vaccines.
Reading DNA, backward and forward
MIT biologists reveal how cells control the direction in which the genome is read.
Grad student receives grant for melanoma research
David Benjamin will investigate mechanisms that melanoma cells use to spread to distant sites throughout the body
A step closer to artificial livers
Researchers identify compounds that help liver cells grow outside the body.
Study IDs key protein for cell death
Findings may offer a new way to kill cancer cells by forcing them into an alternative programmed-death pathway.
Grant to fund nanotech therapies for traumatic brain injuries
MIT’s Sangeeta Bhatia is part of the research team funded by the $6 million DARPA grant.
A different view of cancer cells
New study measures physical changes in tumor cells as they become metastatic.
Research advances therapy to protect against dengue virus
MIT team presents a novel approach to developing a treatment using mutated antibodies.
How cancer cells break free from tumors
New MIT study identifies adhesion molecules key to cancer’s spread through the body.
Turning on key enzyme blocks tumor formation
Drug-like molecule restores normal cell metabolism, preventing cancer cells from growing.