Cancer

Frank Gertler, professor of biology at MIT, speaks during this year's Koch Institute symposium on "Understanding Metastasis."

Koch Institute symposium targets tumor metastasis

June 22, 2009

In mice, the loss of microRNA miR-31 allows cancer cells to spread to the lungs more easily than cancer cells with miR-31. The edge of the cancer tumors lacking miR-31 are also less defined than tumors containing cells with higher levels of miR-31.

RNA snippet suppresses spread of aggressive breast cancer

June 12, 2009

Recent PhD recipient Christophoros Vassiliou, right, holds the cancer monitoring device that he and Professor Michael Cima, left, and recent PhD recipient Grace Kim developed.

Implantable device offers continuous cancer monitoring

New device could track tumor's growth

May 12, 2009

MIT researchers used these gold nanorods that absorb energy from near-infrared light and emit it as heat, destroying cancer cells.

Targeting tumors using tiny gold particles

Gold nanorods could detect, treat cancer

May 4, 2009

Structural diagram of (+)-11,11'-Dideoxyverticillin A. MIT chemists recently synthesized the compound, which has shown anti-cancer activity, for the first time.

Chemists synthesize fungal compound with anti-cancer activity

April 24, 2009

New test can predict spread of breast cancer

May help to reduce over- and under-treatment of the disease

March 24, 2009

Q&A with Richard Hynes on stem cell funding

March 18, 2009

Lifting the ban

March 10, 2009

New gel offers controlled drug delivery

Self-assembling hydrogel could help treat cancer and diabetes, among other diseases

March 9, 2009

Whitehead Institute researchers reprogrammed human skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients into an embryonic-stem-cell-like state. After removing the reprogramming genes, the scientists used these so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to create dopamine-producing neurons, the cell type that degenerates in Parkinson's disease patients.Â To confirm that the iPS cells had become dopam...

Potential cancer-causing genes removed from engineered stem cells

Whitehead work involved reprogrammed skin cells from Parkinson's patient

March 5, 2009

Gold star

Geoffrey von Maltzahn awarded $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for innovations in fight against cancer

March 3, 2009

Highlights of the Koch Institute Topping-Off Ceremony

February 20, 2009

RNA interference can suppress ovarian tumor growth

Study offers promise for new cancer treatments

February 9, 2009

The image on the left shows a sample from a normal prostate, with organized cells lining the O-shaped ductules. Â Mice without theÂ PTENÂ gene had developed cancer, which is characterized by enlarged glands and disorganized cells clogging the ductules (middle image). Â When mTORC2 activity is blocked in mice lacking the PTENÂ gene, the prostate ductulesÂ resemble the appearance of norm...

Preventing prostate cancer the complex way

February 2, 2009

Nitric oxide shown to cause colon cancer

Study offers proof of compound's role in disease

January 19, 2009

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