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Researchers reverse Parkinson's symptoms in animal models

June 22, 2006

Robert W. Mann

Professor Robert W. Mann, leader in prosthetics, dies at 81

June 19, 2006

Virus yields clues into immune system

June 16, 2006

Health Sciences and Technology awards

June 7, 2006

A new sensor developed at MIT monitorsÂ when cultured neuroblastoma cells (green)Â are producing nitric oxide (NO). A copper complex of a fluorescein derivative (formula on lower left) reacts with NO and produces a nitrosated fluorescein (formula on upper right), which causes the cells to glow brightly under the fluorescent microscope.

Sensor opens up study of crucial molecule

June 1, 2006

Cutting the ribbon at the Broad Institute opening on Tuesday, May 30, are, from left, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers; MIT President Susan Hockfield; Eli and Edythe L. Broad, founders of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; and Broad Institute Director Eric S. Lander. The same group celebrates the moment below.

Broad dedicates new building

May 31, 2006

Public database aids drug researchers

May 30, 2006

Elizabeth Goldring, foreground, looks into 'seeing machine' to take a virtual tour of a gallery using a joystick. Her assistant, Jackie McConnell, is at right.

MIT poet develops 'seeing machine'

May 23, 2006

Cloaking device helps pathogens evade immune system

May 19, 2006

Nobelist offers views on flu pandemic

May 17, 2006

Princess Mathilde of Belgium presents the Interbrew-Baillet Latour Health Prize to MIT Professor Hidde Ploegh on Saturday, May 6.

Ploegh wins Belgian health prize

May 16, 2006

NPR 'Science Friday' host Ira Flatow, right, moderates a Picower Institute conference on addiction while Dr. Robert C. Malenka of Stanford University School of Medicine fields questions from the audience.

Picower conference tackles addiction

May 12, 2006

Broad receives $18 million grant

May 10, 2006

Associate Professor Angelika Amon investigates the specialized cell division process that produces sperm and eggs.

Work aids understanding of life's beginning

May 8, 2006

James Fergason has been named the 2006 winner of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the largest cash prize in the United States for invention. Fergason's work led to the creation of liquid crystal displays.

Lemelson-MIT awards prizes for innovation

May 3, 2006