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 on Feb. 19, 2009.
The Institute aims to usher in the next generation of cancer research by enabling engineers, scientists and clinicians to work together toward a common goal: creating better ways to detect, prevent and cure cancer.
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 ...
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 ...
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 has traditionally been the realm of biologists, and, more recently, engineers. Now, physicists are getting in on the action.MIT has been awarded a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...