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Explained: RNA interference

Science and technology journalists pride themselves on the ability to explain complicated ideas in accessible ways, but there are some technical principles that we encounter ...


Nanoparticles for gene therapy improve

About five years ago, Professor Janet Sawicki at the Lankenau Institute in Pennsylvania read an article about nanoparticles developed by MIT’s Daniel Anderson and Robert ...


Possible origins of pancreatic cancer revealed

Pancreatic cancer is the fourth-leading cause of cancer death in the United States, killing an estimated 35,000 Americans each year. One of the reasons pancreatic ...


Cancer research gets physical

Cancer research has traditionally been the realm of biologists, and, more recently, engineers. Now, physicists are getting in on the action.MIT has been awarded a ...


Preventing prostate cancer the complex way

Blocking a specific protein complex prevents the formation of tumors in mice genetically predisposed to develop prostate cancer, researchers at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical ...


RNA interference can suppress ovarian tumor growth

Small RNA molecules can effectively keep ovarian tumors from growing and spreading in mice, according to a team of researchers from MIT, the Lankenau Institute ...


Highlights of the Koch Institute Topping-Off Ceremony

Video highlights of the Topping-Off Ceremony for The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT ...


Gold star

MIT graduate student and biomedical engineer Geoffrey von Maltzahn is this year's winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his promising innovations in the ...


Potential cancer-causing genes removed from engineered stem cells

Whitehead Institute researchers have developed a novel method of removing potential cancer-causing genes during the reprogramming of skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients into an ...


New gel offers controlled drug delivery

MIT researchers have demonstrated that a gel composed of small, woven protein fragments can successfully carry and release proteins of different sizes, potentially enabling delivery ...


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