On a 'roll': MIT researchers devise new cell-sorting system
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Capitalizing on a cells ability to roll along a surface, MIT researchers have developed a simple, inexpensive system to sort different kinds of cells a process that could result in low-cost tools to test for diseases such as cancer, even in remote locations. Rohit Karnik, an ...Bacteria beware: MIT student invents knock-out punch for antibiotic resistance
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (February 27, 2008) MIT graduate student and synthetic biologist Timothy Lu is passionate about tackling problems that pose threats to human health. His current mission: to destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Today, the 27-year-old M.D. candidate and Ph.D. in the Harvard-MI...MediConnect Participates in 2008 National Health Summit
MediConnect CEO, Amy Rees Anderson, was invited to participate with U.S. Secretary of Health, Michael Leavitt, in the 2008 National Summit on Personalized Health Care. Salt Lake City (Vocus) November 20, 2008 -- MediConnect CEO, Amy Rees Anderson, was invited to partici...MIT granted an 8,000 square foot operation facility in Taizhou city for a period of 2 and half years
...d-Jet products to be sold to the Chinese market. mit China assembly operation is planned to start in September 2009. Japanese patent mit is pleased to announce that it has obtained its f... from a leading technological country like Japan. mit will now expand even more into the world market. ...Mass. General-based research center will investigate why immune system fails to control hepatitis C
...e liver in chronic HCV infection; Todd Allen, PhD, Ragon Institute of MGH, mit and Harvard, and Matthew Henn, PhD, Broad Institute of mit and Harvard examine how selection pressure applied by T cells affects HCV ...Immune Response May Speed AIDS Progression in Women
...ads to differences in chronic T-cell activation, a known activator of disease progression, according to the researchers at the Ragon Institute of MGH, mit and Harvard. "This study may help to account for reported gender differences in HIV-1 disease progression by demonstrating that women and men diffe...State privacy rules reduce electronic medical sharing by 24 percent, warns Management Insights
...ion and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records" is by Amalia R. Miller of the University of Virginia and Catherine Tucker of the mit Sloan School of Management. The paper notes that there are many new technologies whose value depends on sharing information. However, the ease with ...Amgen Appoints Rebecca M. Henderson to the Company's Board of Directors
...FM Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( mit ) Sloan School since 1999. She specializes in technology strategy and the b... From 1995 to 1999, Dr. Henderson was a tenured associate professor at the mit Sloan School. She has been a director of IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. since 20...Stand Up To Cancer Awards $73.6 Million for Novel, Groundbreaking Cancer Research
...the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and David H. Koch Institute at mit . Sharp chairs the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) assembled by SU2C's ...the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and David H. Koch Institute at mit , Chair of SU2C Scientific Advisory Committee Raymond N. DuBois, M...Seahorse Bioscience Announces the XF96 Extracellular Flux Analyzer for Cellular Bioenergetics
...vant assay for detecting the effect of RNAi knockdown of mitochondrial genes on cellular bioenergetics," added Vamsi Mootha, from the Broad Institute, mit and Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital. "This technology may accelerate the discovery of drugs for mitochondrial diseases." The XF96 extracell...Pharmaleads' Lead Candidate for Pain, PL37, Enters Phase I
..., alumnus from Polytechnique and Mines, PhD from Stanford, (former Deputy General Manager, Suez Group) and Jean-Pierre Rogala, PhD from Agro, MBA from mit (IBM, Suez Group). They were able to bring in their first rank international business expertise to fully unleash the world-class capabilities of the c...Panacea Pharmaceuticals Announces Issuance of a U.S. Patent Covering Anti-HAAH Antibodies
...prostate lung, breast and colon cancer. PAN-622 and other antibodies covered under U.S. Patent Number 7,413,737 were developed in collaboration with mit using a proprietary yeast display technology. More detailed information is included in Yeung YA, Finney AH, Koyrakh IA, Lebowitz MS, Chanbari HA, Wand...VIVUS Announces Abstract Published at American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions
...co-morbidities were also reduced. About Dr. Najarian Thomas Najarian, M.D., a Board Certified Specialist in Internal Medicine, is a graduate of mit (SB, SM in Mechanical Engineering) and Harvard Medical School. He is a former faculty member of the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Najarian was the forme...Tiny MIT ecosystem may shed light on climate change
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. MIT researchers have created a microbial ecosystem smaller than a stick of gum that sheds new light on the plankton-eat-plankton world at the bottom of the aquatic food chain. The work, reported in the January print issue of American Naturalist , may lead to better predictions...Floating a big idea: MIT demos ancient use of rafts to transport goods
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, and carried tradegoods for thousands of miles all the way from modern-day Chile to western Mexico, according to new findings by MIT researchers in the Department of ...New MIT tool probes brain circuits
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Researchers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT report in the Jan. 24 online edition of Science that they have created a way to see, for the first time, the effect of blocking and unblocking a single neural circuit in a living animal. This revolutionary me...Eli and Edythe L. Broad make unprecedented gift to endow Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 4, 2008 Declaring the success of an unprecedented experiment in science and philanthropy, Los Angeles-based philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad announced today that they have increased their total gift to the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT to $600 million. Adding to t...One fish, two fish: New MIT sensor improves fish counts
Researchers at MIT have found a new way of looking beneath the ocean surface that could help definitively determine whether fish populations are shrinking. A remote sensor system developed by Associate Professor Nicholas Makris of mechanical engineering, along with others at MIT, Northeastern Uni...Study on keeping nuclear bombs from US ports shows misplaced fear over cargo scanning cost
...be presented at the INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, Service Management Special Interest Group Meeting taking place at mit in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 28. http://mitsloan.mit.edu/omg/msom2009/ With continuing concern that Al Qaida or other terrorists will try t...American Society for Microbiology honors Deborah T. Hung
...S. Sigal Memorial Award is being presented to Deborah T. Hung, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the Infectious Disease Initiative at the Broad Institute of mit and Harvard, and assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Sponsored by Merck Research Laboratories, the Merck Irvi...Study finds genetic links to age of first menstrual period and menopause
...om Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Broad Institute of Harvard and mit report that they have identified 10 genetic variants in two chromosomal regions associated with age at menarche (the first menstrual period), and 13 g...$10,000 ISSAC Award for Innovation Presented to MIT PhD
LEXINGTON, Mass., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Heejin Lee, an MIT PhD and scientist, was awarded the prestigious 2009 IAI Award for his work on a silicone-based combination product recently launched by TARIS Biomedical. The ISSAC Award for Innovation recognizes and promotes the achie...New MIT radio chip mimics human ear
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals. Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate professor of electrical engineering ...Boston College, MIT researchers achieve dramatic increase in thermoelectric efficiency
CHESTNUT HILL/CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 20, 2008 - Researchers at Boston College and MIT have used nanotechnology to achieve a major increase in thermoelectric efficiency, a milestone that paves the way for a new generation of products from semiconductors and air conditioners to car exhaust systems...nPoint recognized as small company of year by MIT Club of Wisconsin
Madison, Wis. The MIT Club of Wisconsin is recognizing nPoint, Inc. for major contributions to Wisconsins economy through technological innovation. nPoint, a Madison-based provider of motion devices and controllers for nanoscale research and manufacturing, is one of three winners of the annual 2...New method may accelerate drug discovery for difficult diseases like Parkinson's
... researcher in Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist's lab. "I think it's a very exciting method," says Lindquist, who is also a professor of biology at mit and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. "It provides much greater diversity in the chemical compounds you can study because you can screen...Study on keeping nuclear bombs from US ports shows misplaced fear over cargo scanning cost
...be presented at the INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, Service Management Special Interest Group Meeting taking place at mit in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 28. http://mitsloan.mit.edu/omg/msom2009/ With continuing concern that Al Qaida or other terrorists will try t...Researchers enlist DNA to bring carbon nanotubes' promise closer to reality
...ssor of chemical engineering at Lehigh. Manohar is a graduate student in chemical engineering at Lehigh. In 2003, a team of scientists from DuPont, mit and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed a new method of separating metallic CNTs from semiconducting CNTs using single-stranded D...