Items tagged with MIT

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A Better Bug for Biofuels Friday, September 25th, 2009 - 18:20:33 - Anuradha Menon While most attempts to engineer biofuel-producing microbes have focused on well-known organisms such as yeasts and E. coli, scientists also hope to... read more

Echoes of the Birth of the Universe Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 - 10:48:21 - Anuradha Menon An investigation by the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration, designed and operated by Caltech and... read more

Tumor Mutations Can Predict Chemo Success Friday, August 7th, 2009 - 12:20:21 - Anuradha Menon New work by MIT cancer biologists shows that the interplay between two key genes that are often defective in tumors determines how cancer cells... read more

Nanoparticles Target Ovarian Cancer Friday, July 31st, 2009 - 09:05:21 - Anuradha Menon Tiny particles carrying a killer gene can effectively suppress ovarian tumor growth in mice, according to a team of researchers from MIT and the... read more

Breaking the Law, At Nanoscale Thursday, July 30th, 2009 - 16:55:18 - Anuradha Menon A well-established physical law describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law should break... read more

Tracking Trash Thursday, July 16th, 2009 - 09:01:55 - Anuradha Menon What if we knew exactly where our trash was going and how much energy it took to make it disappear? Would it make us think twice about buying bottled... read more

Adult Brain Can Change Within Seconds Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 - 10:49:38 - Anuradha Menon The human brain can adapt to changing demands even in adulthood, but MIT neuroscientists have now found evidence of it changing with unsuspected... read more

H1N1 Less Effective at Rapid Transmission Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 - 16:11:35 - Anuradha Menon A team from MIT and the Centers for Disease Control has found a genetic explanation for why the new H1N1 "swine flu" virus has spread from person to... read more

A Phone is Not Just a Phone Saturday, July 4th, 2009 - 12:15:23 - Anuradha Menon A cellphone is not just for calling, texting and taking pictures anymore. Several startup business ventures spawned by MIT students, sometimes as... read more

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