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Health Sciences and Technology's Taplin Awards symposium set for May 22

May 15, 2002

At Monday's press conference announcing Novartis' new research center in Tech Square, the remarks of Cambridge Mayor Michael Sullivan amused (left to right) Cambridge City manager Robert Healy, MIT President Charles M.Vest, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy and Novartis chairman and CEO, Dr. Daniel Vasella.

Novartis is opening research center in Tech Square

May 8, 2002

Breast cancer treatment looks promising in phase 2 clinical trials

May 8, 2002

Symposium on traumatic stress disorder scheduled by CRC

May 8, 2002

CAES forms AIDS walk team

May 8, 2002

Valerie Carr, chief technologist for MEG, demonstrates the new imaging system as Seppo Ahlfors, technical director of MEG, looks on. Using scientific approaches pioneered by Martinos Center researchers, the combined MEG and MRI data from new facilities at the center will produce "movies" of the brain at work.

Martinos Center dedicates two new brain imaging systems for research

May 1, 2002

Photo above (Copyright Science magazine) shows how a fiber of the new biodegradable plastic with "memory" can be used to tie a smart suture. After forming a loose knot, the ends of the suture were fixed. The series shows from top to bottom how the knot tightened in 20 seconds when heated to 40 degrees C.

Smart suture is first application of novel MIT polymer

April 25, 2002

Computers in medicine focus of prof's work

April 10, 2002

The research of Professor Richard Wurtman (left), director of the Clinical Research Center, and Lisa Teather, a postdoctoral associate in brain and cognitive sciences, may lead to powerful new painkilling drugs.

Powerful new painkillers may be developed from research

April 3, 2002

Shulamit Levenberg, a postdoctoral associate in chemical engineering, surveys cell cultures at a microscope in the Langer lab.

Langer team reports source of cells for engineered human blood vessels

April 3, 2002

MIT study may lead to powerful new painkillers

April 1, 2002

Computers in medicine is focus of prof's research

March 29, 2002

Graduate students will present their research results at HST forum

March 13, 2002

Bertrand Delgutte (left) and Andrew Oxenham (center), research scientists at the Research Lab for Electronics, meet with graduate student Zachary Smith in the lab.

Researchers working to make better music for hearing-impaired people

March 13, 2002

Why is the piano player wearing mittens?

March 13, 2002