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Sequencing the genome of the guinea pig can help researchers find important biological functions within the human genome.

Broad wins $200M for genomics research

December 6, 2006

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MIT implant measures tumor growth, treatment

December 4, 2006

MIT-CIMIT winner will research ways to assess neuromuscular disease

December 4, 2006

Center for Cancer Research receives $6 million to study tumor cell 'microenvironment'

December 1, 2006

Professors Alexander Klibanov, left, Jianzhu Chen and MIT researcher Jayanta Haldar discuss the 'antimicrobial paint' they have developed.

MIT's anti-microbial 'paint' kills flu, bacteria

Coating's polymers poke holes in the membranes that surround influenza viruses

November 30, 2006

Judith Wurtman, author of a new book on overeating, debunks the myth that turkey makes us drowsy.

Researcher talks turkey on Thanksgiving dinner droop

It's the stuffing, stupid!

November 21, 2006

STS research contributes to understanding disparities in success of medical treatments

November 15, 2006

Researchers gain traction in race against pandemics

November 15, 2006

Chemistry graduate student Elizabeth McCoy, left, and Sarah O'Connor, assistant professor of chemistry, inspect their latest batch of periwinkle root. They are working with periwinkle seedlings to produce potential new drugs.

Periwinkle can serve as tiny chemical plant

November 15, 2006

The building blocks of healthy collagen, above, begin with one-nanometer-sized amino acids, which form the universal 300-nanometer tropocollagen strands. Fibrils composed of those strands, in turn, make up the steel-cable-like collagen fibers.

Math model may aid study of collagen ailments

Tensile loading reveals nature's economy

November 14, 2006

Scientific American names Angela Belcher Researcher of the Year

3 others from MIT rank in magazine's top 50

November 6, 2006

AIDS expert equates treatment, human rights

Smallpox and polio prove global efforts can work

November 1, 2006

MIT offers new medical sciences program

November 1, 2006

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Gareth McKinley, left, and HST graduate student Nikola Kojic used the micro-rheometer in their lab to study the viscosity and stickiness of spider silk. The taffy-like 'thread' is actually a protein solution, they found.

Engineers probe spiders' polymer art

Manufactured silk could be used for artificial tendons and ligaments, sutures, parachutes and bulletproof vests

October 30, 2006

Lander named one of America's 'best leaders'

U.S. News list of 20 includes Stata architect Frank Gehry

October 27, 2006

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MIT-CIMIT winner will research ways to assess neuromuscular disease

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MIT's anti-microbial 'paint' kills flu, bacteria

Researcher talks turkey on Thanksgiving dinner droop

STS research contributes to understanding disparities in success of medical treatments

Researchers gain traction in race against pandemics

Periwinkle can serve as tiny chemical plant

Math model may aid study of collagen ailments

Scientific American names Angela Belcher Researcher of the Year

AIDS expert equates treatment, human rights

MIT offers new medical sciences program

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