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This image depicts a group of Zebrafish embryos at 2 days of age. The bottom (darker) pair are the wild type and the top two have mutations in a gene encoding a vacuolar-ATPase subunit, which causes the fish to have less pigment.

MIT researchers create first genetic 'recipe' for zebrafish

May 13, 2002

Cambridge, MIT are magnets for biotech

May 8, 2002

Facts on Cambridge, MIT and the biotech industry

May 6, 2002

Super-molecular assemblies: a film is made from phage and biosythesized nano-particles.

Viruses put to work making high-tech materials

May 2, 2002

Elsa Flores, a postdoctoral associate, works with cell cultures under the hood in Tyler Jacks' lab. Flores and Jacks recently identified genes involved in cellular suicide that may be key in cancer research.

Team identifies genes in cell suicide

April 10, 2002

Shulamit Levenberg, a postdoctoral associate in chemical engineering, surveys cell cultures at a microscope in the Langer lab.

Langer team reports source of cells for engineered human blood vessels

April 3, 2002

Key cell suicide gene has helpers, MIT team reports

April 3, 2002

The research of Professor Richard Wurtman (left), director of the Clinical Research Center, and Lisa Teather, a postdoctoral associate in brain and cognitive sciences, may lead to powerful new painkilling drugs.

Powerful new painkillers may be developed from research

April 3, 2002

New fellowships for doctoral candidates in biological engineering created by Biogen

April 3, 2002

Team reports source of human cells for engineered blood vessels

March 28, 2002

Jaenisch and Daley of Whitehead partially restore immune function in mice

March 13, 2002

DNA arrays give clues to vaccines

February 6, 2002

Cell jacket sugars, proteins are focus of consortium

January 30, 2002

Dr. Dongfang Liu (seated) and Professor Ram Sasisekharan in their lab, where they have developed a new technique to attack acncer by designing drugs that affect the sugar coats on cells.

Team tailors cell jackets to inhibit cancer growth

January 30, 2002

MIT Research Associate Dongfang Liu treats melanoma tumor cells with the sugar fragments he and colleagues report inhibit tumor growth. At right is Associate Professor Ram Sasisekharan, leader of the team. Both are in MIT's Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health.

MIT team tailors cell jackets to prevent cancer

January 21, 2002