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Ranier Lohmann, a former postdoctoral associate at MIT's Parsons Lab, takes samples in Boston Harbor to assess levels of toxic organic compounds.

Plastic packaging helps monitor ocean pollutants

January 12, 2005

From left, Pete Wishok, Paul Skipper and Steve Tannenbaum, display diagrams related to their work identifying three new chemical risk factors for bladder cancer.

New risks for bladder cancer identified by MIT team

October 7, 2004

June 2, 2004

Postdoctoral associate Preston Snee, graduate student Aetna Wun and Professor Daniel G. Nocera (left to right) use a laser microsensor.

Supramolecules are super for sensing

October 8, 2003

Postdoctoral associate Preston Snee, graduate student Aetna Wun, and Professor of Chemistry Daniel G. Nocera (left to right) use a laser microsensor.

Supramolecules come in handy for sensing and measuring

October 2, 2003

Researchers dive into the intricacies of water's H-O bonds

September 24, 2003

Scientists and students from around the world gathered in Crete, Greece, this summer for a workshop on self-assembling peptides and proteins. Many of the group took an afternoon trip to Knossos, the architectural ruins of a Minoan palace inhabited in 1450 B.C.

Peptides: the 21st century's building blocks

Versatility puts them on brink of widespread use

September 10, 2003

Neurons spell out MIT, the work of Sawyer Fuller (S.B. 2000, S.M. 2003) and Neville Sanjana, a graduate student in brain and cognitive sciences.

Peptides: the 21st century's building blocks

Manipulation is key to taming molecules

September 10, 2003

"I was an only child, so it was me and the beagle for a long time." - Catherine L. Drennan

Dogged determination pays off for Professor Drennan

February 5, 2003

Chemistry dedicates Buchi/Pfizer labs

September 11, 2002

Graduate student Michael C. Hewitt, left, speaks with Professor Peter H. Seeberger in the lab where their work on malaria has been taking place.

Research may yield malaria vaccine

August 28, 2002

Researchers crack the code of the complex sugar molecule

August 7, 2002

Chemistry department makes awards to 17

June 5, 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

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Researchers dive into the intricacies of water's H-O bonds

Peptides: the 21st century's building blocks

Peptides: the 21st century's building blocks

Dogged determination pays off for Professor Drennan

Chemistry dedicates Buchi/Pfizer labs

Research may yield malaria vaccine

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Chemistry department makes awards to 17

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