Health sciences and technology

Cross-section and close-up of a rabbit trachea whose inner lining has been damaged.

MIT researchers find novel way to repair airway injuries

Technique could apply to different parts of human body

May 5, 2008

MIT researchers find early treatment of stomach infection may prevent cancer

May 1, 2008

Vials of lipid-like molecules developed by a team from MIT and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Some of the compounds have successfully delivered RNA interference agents in animals.

Team develops safe, effective RNA interference technique

Method holds promise for treating cancer and infection

April 27, 2008

Top image depicts the chemical structure of chondroitin sulfate, the contaminant found in batches of heparin. Bottom image shows the chemical structure of normal heparin.

Teams unravel heparin death mystery

April 23, 2008

Angelika Amon, an MIT biology professor, reports new insights into the role of proteins in cell division, work that could shed light on why errors occur during this process.

Protein role in cell division re-evaluated by MIT researchers

Work could impact study of miscarriages, birth defects

April 17, 2008

A typist wears a mask in New York during the 'Spanish flu' influenza pandemic of 1918. A new study by MIT graduate student Peter Doshi finds that death rates in pandemic seasons were no higher than--and were sometimes exceeded by--those for severe nonpandemic seasons.

Study challenges notion of 'pandemic' flu

CDC-labeled pandemics no deadlier than seasonal influenza

April 11, 2008

Figure illustrates "lab on a chip" technique developed by MIT researchers to allow immobilization and imaging of a live C. elegans worm: (a-i) worm moves freely in chip's microfluidic channel; (a-ii) partial immobilization of worm; (a-iii) full immobilization; (b) low magnification image of worm immobilized in the device; (c) close-up of immobilized worm showing animal's neurons (fluorescent).

Live-animal nerve regeneration study gets a boost

MIT team refines optical 'lab on a chip'

April 10, 2008

In this magnified image from the PNAS paper, a nerve cell derived from artificially created stem cells is shown after its integration in an animal brain.

Stem cell method treats Parkinson's symptoms in rats

April 7, 2008

Panel focuses on turning biomedical advances into reality

April 3, 2008

CDC chief Gerberding to speak at MIT April 2

March 28, 2008

Study sees mental link between drug price, effectiveness

March 19, 2008

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, one of two winners of the 2008 Max Planck Research Award, gives a speech at the June 26th award ceremony as part of the 59th annual meeting of the Max Planck Society in Dresden, Germany.

Langer wins major German science award

March 18, 2008

Solving the drug price crisis

March 17, 2008

Professor Rohit Karnik works in the lab with the new method for cell separation that he, Institute Professor Robert Langer and other colleagues have developed. It involves steering rolling cells and could lead to devices for rapidly detecting diseases.

On a 'roll': MIT researchers devise new cell-sorting system

Process could yield low-cost tool for diagnosing cancer, other diseases

March 12, 2008

MIT students Maria Luckyanova and Philip Garcia (at right) operate their prosthetic-fitting device at the Jaipur Foot Organization headquarters in India in January, as JFO specialists work on fitting a prosthetic leg on a patient.

A leg to stand on

March 5, 2008

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