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MIT researchers identify gene involved in building brains

March 30, 2005

David Bartel

Hughes Institute honors Bartel

March 22, 2005

Researchers identify target for cancer drugs

March 14, 2005

Rest easy: MIT study confirms melatonin's value as sleep aid

March 1, 2005

Angela Belcher

Belcher is a 'woman to watch'

February 23, 2005

MIT establishes groundbreaking biological engineering major

February 17, 2005

David Berry won the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his inventiveness in the medical lab.

HST student wins $30,000 Lemelson Prize

February 16, 2005

Broad Institute researchers David Altshuler, left, Wendy Winckler, Stacey Gabriel and colleagues have found that the gene-swapping locations in human and chimpanzee genomes are entirely different.

Surprising difference found between human and chimp genomes

February 11, 2005

MIT: Cells' delicate balancing act is key to higher brain functions

February 2, 2005

Images of human brains, based directly on data from an MRI machine, show the regions of the brain that are activated by peripheral visual stimuli in a person with normal vision and in a person with macular degeneration. People with macular degeneration lack central vision and must use peripheral vision only. The area at the back of the brain (marked by the white ovals) that normally responds only ...

Macular degeneration accompanied by significant brain reorganization

January 19, 2005

David Page

David Page named interim director of Whitehead

January 18, 2005

In these endometriosis lesions from the mouse model of endometriosis, both endometriotic glands (arrow) and stroma (arrowhead) are shown.

Endometriosis and ovarian cancer modeled in mouse

January 7, 2005

Cells that have damaged DNA in their nuclei (gray dots) normally stop dividing. However, the two cells for which MAPKAP Kinase-2 activity has been inhibited still undergo cell division (red stain), even in the presence of DNA damage (green stain).

MIT team aims to reduce chemo doses

January 6, 2005

MIT-led team: viruses change shape to infect us

December 21, 2004

A colon cancer cell circulating in the blood stream of an LFS mouse is in the process of dividing and contains substantially more than the normal number chromosomes, a feature that is characteristic of tumor cells. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('mousemodel-smear-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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New model of cancer syndrome could lead to treatments

December 16, 2004