Location: Cambridge, United States
In the search for answers to the planet's biggest challenges, some MIT
researchers are turning to its tiniest organisms: bacteria.
The idea of exploiting microbial products is not new: Humans have long
enlisted bacteria and yeast to...
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Location: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, United States
Researchers at the
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of
nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies
has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research
performed at the
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
A new thin-film coating developed at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology can deliver controlled drug doses to specific
targets in the body following...
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Location: Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, United States
Using new techniques for rapidly scanning the human genome, researchers have
associated levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, two fats in the blood, to 18
genetic variants, six of which represent new
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
University of Minnesota
researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory.
By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the
University of Minnesota...
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Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
In studies involving more than 35,000 people and a survey across the entire
human genome, an international team supported in part by the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) has found evidence...
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Location: University of Virginia, United States
Magnets have been touted for their healing properties since ancient Greece.
Magnetic therapy is still widely used today as an alternative method for
treating a number of conditions, from arthritis to depression, but there
hasn’t been...
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Location: American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, United States
Tonsillectomies to treat chronic and recurrent tonsillitis substantially
improve a patient’s quality of live in both children and adults, according to
two new studies published as a supplement to the January 2008 issue of...
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Location: Emory University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal. These tools may allow doctors to detect and diagnose cancer earlier and less invasively
Studded with...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Treating breast
cancer with a type of heat therapy derived from MIT
radar research can significantly increase the effectiveness of...
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Location: Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia, United States
Chemotherapy given at the same time as radiation therapy can help patients with a certain type of lung cancer live nearly 50 percent longer than they might have otherwise if the same treatment was given differently, according to an...
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Location: Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, United States
It used to be dogma that the brain was shut away from the actions of the
immune system, shielded from the outside forces of nature. But that’s not how
it is at all. In fact, thanks to the scientific detective work of Kevin Tracey,
MD, it...
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Location: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
An international team of researchers led by a Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center geneticist has discovered two genes linked
to a disabling form of
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue,cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United States
MIT researchers have developed a model that could predict how cells will respond to targeted drug therapies. Models based on this approach could help doctors make better treatment choices for individual patients, who often respond differently to...
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Location: Center for Cancer Research,Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,77 Massachusetts Avenue,Cambridge, MA 02139 ,, United States
Regulation of protein-protein interactions
and signal transduction pathways by protein and lipid phosphorylation. Structure
and function of modular signaling domains. Design of bioinformatics tools for...
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