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MIT researchers are synthesizing novel stimuli which have the envelope of one sound and the fine structure of another sound. They call these stimuli "auditory chimeras" by analogy with the mythological beasts, which have the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. (Image: Chimera of Arezzo)

Mythical beasts may help MIT researchers provide better music for the hearing impaired

March 6, 2002

Researcher explores heart problems tied to space flight

February 27, 2002

Dr. Dongfang Liu (seated) and Professor Ram Sasisekharan in their lab, where they have developed a new technique to attack acncer by designing drugs that affect the sugar coats on cells.

Team tailors cell jackets to inhibit cancer growth

January 30, 2002

MIT Research Associate Dongfang Liu treats melanoma tumor cells with the sugar fragments he and colleagues report inhibit tumor growth. At right is Associate Professor Ram Sasisekharan, leader of the team. Both are in MIT's Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health.

MIT team tailors cell jackets to prevent cancer

January 21, 2002

Jacks

Cancer center enters 28th year with new leadership, goals

December 19, 2001

Gene therapy corrects sickle cell disease in mice, scientists report

December 14, 2001

Sutton to direct National Space Biomedical Research Institute

December 12, 2001

Goldstein

New book by Goldsteins examines medical controversies

November 28, 2001

Research scientist Stefan W. Maas (left), Professor Alexander Rich and junior Jay Shrestha, another member of Rich's research team, examine data from their study on the link between RNA editing and brain tumors.

Researchers uncover link between RNA editing and brain tumor

November 28, 2001

Research scientist Stefan W. Maas (left), Professor Alexander Rich and junior Jay Shrestha, another
member of Rich's research team, examine data from their study on the link between RNA editing and brain tumors.

MIT researchers find connection between RNA editing and symptoms related to brain tumors

November 19, 2001

MIT joins consortium on toxicology and the environment

November 7, 2001

Scientists pinpoint dosage of melatonin for insomnia

October 17, 2001

HST now offers predoctoral training in integrative genomics, bioinformatics

October 3, 2001

Daley of Whitehead will discuss science of stem cells

September 12, 2001

Initial results promising for breast cancer treatment

September 12, 2001