Items tagged with MIT

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Extending the Shelf Life of Antibody Drugs Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 - 09:02:36 - Anuradha Menon A new computer model developed at MIT can help solve a problem that has plagued drug companies trying to develop promising new treatments made of... read more

Learn How We Think About Others from Blind Saturday, June 27th, 2009 - 09:01:12 - Anuradha Menon Human beings constantly make inferences about other people's state of mind, usually without even realizing they are doing it. Cognitive scientists... read more

Engineering For Extreme Environments Thursday, June 25th, 2009 - 16:11:08 - Anuradha Menon Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT... read more

Greenhouse Gases Made Visible Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 - 16:35:25 - Anuradha Menon The latest ominous number to appear on the side of a New York building is a real-time count of the tons of carbon dioxide (and equivalents of other... read more

MIT Team Solves Volcanic Mystery Saturday, June 6th, 2009 - 14:23:21 - Anuradha Menon For decades, geologists have been puzzled by the mechanisms that give rise to the kind of volcanoes that form the so-called "ring of fire" around the... read more

Restoring Sight with Gene Therapy Friday, May 29th, 2009 - 14:35:53 - Anuradha Menon Several years ago, when Ed Boyden developed a novel technology to make nerve cells sensitive to light, he knew that it would rapidly catch on in the... read more

Engineered Circuits Count Cellular Events Friday, May 29th, 2009 - 09:12:35 - Anuradha Menon MIT and Boston University engineers have designed cells that can count and "remember" cellular events, using simple circuits in which a series of... read more

Robotic Therapy For Cerebral Palsy Patients Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 - 12:22:14 - Anuradha Menon Over the past few years, MIT engineers have successfully tested robotic devices to help stroke patients learn to control their arms and legs. Now... read more

Fungal Compound With Anti-Cancer Activity Saturday, April 25th, 2009 - 14:11:59 - Anuradha Menon Ten years ago, William Fenical of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography isolated from an ocean-living fungus a compound that has since shown the... read more

The Games Microbes Play Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 - 10:10:08 - Anuradha Menon One of the perplexing questions raised by evolutionary theory is how cooperative behavior, which benefits other members of a species at a cost to the... read more

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