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Benefits director outlines changes, answers questions on new options

May 22, 2007

An MIT research team studying gene regulation in mouse and human liver cells has found that master regulatory proteins function differently in the two. From left, post-doc Robin Dowell, Professor Ernest Fraenkel, graduate student Kenzie MacIsaac and research technician William Gordon discuss their research.

Mice and men make livers differently

Work should guide researchers using mice as models for human biology

May 21, 2007

Martha Constantine-Paton, an MIT professor of biology and principle investigator in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and research scientist Akira Yoshii have discovered a new molecular pathway that helps solve the puzzle of how neurons form synapses.

MIT reports key pathway in synaptic plasticity

Work could aid study of brain disorders

May 21, 2007

Part of the global team responsible for confirming the protein RESA's role in causing malaria by binding to red blood cells, in a lab at MIT. Professor Subra Suresh, left, research scientist Ming Dao, standing, post-doc Monica Diez Silva, seated, graduate student David Quinn, seated, graduate student John Mills, and professor Matthew Lang.

MIT-led team ID's cell mechanics of hallmark malaria protein

GEM4's multidisciplinary, multinational research targets public health crises like malaria

May 21, 2007

NMR advance relies on microscopic detector

Technology could vastly improve diagnostics

May 15, 2007

Team unearths genetic risk factors for diabetes

Three novel regions of the genome influence the risk of type 2 diabetes

May 11, 2007

Professor James Fujimoto with a high-resolution, 3-D image generated using a new type of laser in combination with the Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) system he developed in the early 1990s with Eric Swanson of MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

MIT team takes high-res, 3-D images of eye

April 30, 2007

Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and colleagues have found that exposing lab mice to certain environmental stimuli induced the animals' brain cells to make new connections.

Picower team reverses Alzheimer's-like symptoms in mice

'Lost' memories may prove merely inaccessible

April 30, 2007

Postdoctoral associate Michel Godin, left, Associate Professor Scott
Manalis of biological engineering and postdoctoral associate Thomas Burg are part of an MIT team that has developed a technique to measure the mass of single cells.

New MIT technique weighs single living cells

One promising application is creation of a cheap and robust device to monitor CD4 cell numbers in AIDS patients

April 25, 2007

MIT Medical director outlines improvements in care, access for Institute community

Kettyle likens task force report to 'annual physical'

April 23, 2007

Larger-scale folds develop the fastest in premature (born more than seven weeks early) infants (top), while medium-scale folds develop the fastest in older premature infants, born between seven and two weeks early (middle). In older infants and children, fine folds develop the most quickly across the brain surface (bottom).

Model helps researchers 'see' brain development

Work could facilitate early detection of autism

April 10, 2007

Researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) have developed a device that allows them to control the distance between cells. The cells are placed on combs, which can be fully separated (top), slightly separated (middle) or locked together with combs in contact (bottom).

HST device draws cells close--but not too close--together

April 4, 2007

Infectious diseases to be first focus of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology

March 30, 2007

MIT graduate student Timothy J. Buschman, left, and Professor Earl Miller of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences have found concrete evidence that two radically different brain regions play different roles in the different modes of attention.

Neuroscientists find different brain regions fuel attention

Work could be significant in treatment of ADD

March 29, 2007

Edward Boyden, assistant professor in the MIT Media Lab, uses light to silence brain cells, which could block abnormal neuron activity associated with diseases like epilepsy and Parkinson's.

MIT neuroengineers' pulsing light silences overactive neurons

Work could lead to new treatments for epilepsy, Parkinson's

March 27, 2007

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