Fighting cancer with the power of immunity | MIT News

New treatment elicits two-pronged immune response that destroys tumors in mice.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
Oct. 24, 2016 ~7 min

A new strategy for choosing cancer drugs | MIT News

Device can predict tumor responses by measuring cell growth after drug exposure.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
Oct. 10, 2016 ~6 min


Gene therapy technique may help prevent cancer metastasis | MIT News

Gene-regulating RNA molecules could help treat early-stage breast cancer tumors before they spread.

Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent • mit
Sept. 19, 2016 ~5 min

High-capacity nanoparticle | MIT News

Particles that carry three or more drugs hold potential for targeted cancer therapy.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 14, 2016 ~6 min

Microchip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth | MIT News

Device that measures growth of many individual cells simultaneously could lead to rapid tests for antibiotics.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 5, 2016 ~8 min

Using light to control genome editing | MIT News

New technique offers precise manipulation of when and where genes are targeted.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
Aug. 25, 2016 ~6 min

Targeting genes by the thousands | MIT News

PhD student Tim Wang uses CRISPR to take a big-picture approach to cancer research.

Catherine Curro Caruso | MIT News correspondent • mit
Aug. 2, 2016 ~8 min

Why working the night shift can pose a cancer risk | MIT News

New study reveals a link between circadian clock disruption and tumor growth.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
July 28, 2016 ~5 min


Patch that delivers drug, gene, and light-based therapy to tumor sites shows promising results | MIT News

In mice, device destroyed colorectal tumors and prevented remission after surgery.

Helen Knight | MIT News Office • mit
July 25, 2016 ~6 min

Cancer-fighting bacteria | MIT News

Engineers program E. coli to destroy tumor cells.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
July 20, 2016 ~6 min

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