New pathway for lung cancer treatment
MIT researchers identify pyrimidine biosynthesis as a target for the treatment of small cell lung cancer.
Bendta Schroeder | Koch Institute | Nov. 6, 2019 | mit~6 mins
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Biological engineer Paul Blainey creates new tools to advance biomedical research
His technology platforms have benefited genomics, diagnostics, and drug screening.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office | Oct. 19, 2019 | mit~8 mins
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Detecting patients’ pain levels via their brain signals
System could help with diagnosing and treating noncommunicative patients.
Rob Matheson | MIT News Office | Sept. 12, 2019 | mit~9 mins
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Guided by AI, robotic platform automates molecule manufacture
New system could free bench chemists from time-consuming tasks, may help inspire new molecules.
Becky Ham | MIT News correspondent | Aug. 8, 2019 | mit~7 mins
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Model predicts cognitive decline due to Alzheimer’s, up to two years out
Researchers hope the system can zero in on the right patients to enroll in clinical trials, to speed discovery of drug treatments.
Rob Matheson | MIT News Office | Aug. 1, 2019 | mit~8 mins
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Speeding up drug discovery for brain diseases
Whitehead Institute team finds drugs that activate a key brain gene; initial tests in cells and mice show promise for rare, untreatable neurodevelopmental disorder.
Nicole Davis | July 31, 2019 | mit~6 mins
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Drug makes tumors more susceptible to chemo
Compound that knocks out a DNA repair pathway enhances cisplatin treatment and helps prevent drug-resistance.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office | June 6, 2019 | mit~7 mins
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Merging cell datasets, panorama style
Algorithm stitches multiple datasets into a single “panorama,” which could provide new insights for medical and biological studies.
Rob Matheson | MIT News Office | May 6, 2019 | mit~8 mins
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New approach could accelerate efforts to catalogue vast numbers of cells
Data-sampling method makes “sketches” of unwieldy biological datasets while still capturing the full diversity of cell types.
Rob Matheson | MIT News Office | May 2, 2019 | mit~7 mins
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The fluid that feeds tumor cells
The substance that bathes tumors in the body is quite different from the medium used to grow cancer cells in the lab, biologists report.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office | April 16, 2019 | mit~6 mins
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