Bioengineering and biotechnology

Program to replenish eelgrass in New England invigorates food chain and educates students

March 12, 2007

$100M gift to launch research center for psychiatric disease

March 8, 2007

Doherty professor studies marine organisms

March 7, 2007

Metro Boston's flora and fauna reveal global warming's effect

February 27, 2007

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MIT bioengineer advances survival, promise of adult stem cells

February 27, 2007

An MIT model for object recognition takes as input the unlabeled images of digital photographs from the street scene database (top) and generates automatic annotations (bottom row). The orange bounding boxes are for pedestrians ("ped") and cars ("car"). The system would have also detected bicycles if present. For sky, buildings, trees and road, the system uses color coding (blue, brown, green and ...

Computer model mimics neural processes in object recognition

Applications include surveillance, visual search engines, biomedical imaging analysis and robots with realistic vision

February 23, 2007

Gilliam fellowship winner is committed to health research and outreach

February 13, 2007

Postdoctoral fellow Christian Reinhardt, left, and Professor Michael Yaffe of MIT's Center for Cancer Research have identified a defense mechanism that helps tumor cells survive chemotherapy.

New drug may dissolve tumors' defense against chemotherapy

February 12, 2007

Graduate student Jianping Fu (left), Professor Jongyoon Han and postdoc Reto Schoch have created a microchip system that allows speedy separation and sorting of biomolecules.

MIT improves protein sorting with a new microchip

February 5, 2007

Team develops nanoparticles to battle cancer

New particles mimic platelets

February 1, 2007

Lauffenburger wins 2007 Galletti award

January 26, 2007

Image at left shows process of detecting and destroying an enemy missile using MIT targeted radar. Microwave energy is fixed on a missile while simultaneously nullifying enemy jammers. On right, microwave energy is aimed at a cancerous tumor with a deep focused beam while simultaneously nullifying any energy that would overheat surrounding healthy tissue.

New book documents MIT breast cancer therapy

January 26, 2007

Wrinkled hard skin on polymer surface induced by focused ion beam. The wrinkles are hierarchical with the primary wavelength of 465 nm.

Scientists create wrinkled polymer 'skin'

January 25, 2007

Andrea Ventura, an MIT postdoctoral associate, works in the lab at the Center for Cancer Research. He and his colleagues have shown that by reactivating a certain gene, cancerous tumors in mice can be drastically reduced in size.

Reactivated gene shrinks tumors, MIT study finds

January 24, 2007

CEHS hosts gene-environment symposium Jan. 26