Labeling Tumors with Quantum Dots
Labeling Tumors with Quantum Dots
Quantum dots are tiny semiconductor crystals with vivid colors that can be used as visual labels in biology and medicine. Quantum dots excited by UV radiation emit light with an energy and color that is determined by the size of the quantum dot. Darcy Wanger describes how the characteristics ...
The Science and Business of RNAi Therapeutics
Lessons from Alnylam: The Science and Business of RNAi Therapeutics
Important lessons in the story of RNAi and Alnylam and their broader implications will be shared.
Manipulating microscopic magnetic beads at MIT
Manipulating microscopic magnetic beads at MIT
MIT researchers found that arc-shaped magnetic nanotracks could be used most effectively to control the motion of magnetic microbeads across the surface of a silicon wafer. By combining these arcs, they produced configurations such as this, with two "reservoir" rings ...
Mending hearts with tissue engineering
Mending hearts with tissue engineering
Video of a patch of engineered heart tissue "beating" in response to electrical field stimulation. The tissue was created by culturing rat heart cells on an accordion-like honeycomb scaffold developed by MIT researchers. Original magnification = 100x. Photo Credit G.C. Engelmayr Jr., MIT
Missy Cummings at TEDMED
Missy Cummings at TEDMED
MIT Professor—and former Navy fighter pilot—Missy Cummings gives a talk at TEDMED 2012.
MIT News at Noon with Burcu Erkmen
MIT News at Noon with Burcu Erkmen
Berkmen discusses her research with Professors Utkan Demirci and Ed Boyden in developing 3-D brain tissue constructs.
Nanotechnology and the Study of Human Diseases
Nanotechnology and the Study of Human Diseases
06/10/2006 12:00 PM KresgeSubra Suresh, ScD '81, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; Description: Subra Suresh fleshes out the promise of nanotechnology, at least in regard to our understanding of disease. His talk, which focuses on malaria and its impact on red blood ...
Nikolai Begg Lemelson-MIT Application Video
Nikolai Begg Lemelson-MIT Application Video
My video submission for the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Invention, describing a novel mechanism to increase the safety of puncture access procedures.
In profile: Nikolai Begg
Nikolai Begg: The 2013 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner
Profile video of Nikolai Begg, 2013 $30,000 winner of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his portfolio of novel medical devices that are helping to make surgical procedures less invasive.
Novel Chip for Monitoring Breast Cancer
Novel Chip for Monitoring Breast Cancer
This video illustrates how estrogen is extracted from a drop of human blood using a novel microfluidics chip developed at the University of Toronto. The samples are lysed, and then the estrogen is extracted into a polar solvent (methanol), while the unwanted parts of the blood sample are ...
Nozomi Ando's Personal Story
Nozomi Ando's Personal Story
Nozomi, a self-described artist and comic book lover, describes how her training to become a scientist was akin to that of a ninja.
On the Scent: 2013 Image Award Winner
On the Scent: 2013 Image Award Winner
Eric Williams explains the story behind his beautiful image, "On the Scent: Investigating an Anti-Aging Gene Inside the Nose." Eric's image was selected as a winner of the 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards.
Oncogenic Kras: Models and Medicines
Oncogenic Kras: Models and Medicines
David Tuveson - Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute
Paradigm Shifts: From Biology to Technology to Medical ...
Paradigm Shifts: From Biology to Technology to Medical Applications
03/16/2011 1:30 PM KresgeRichard O. Hynes, PhD '71, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Department of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; ...
Personalized Cancer Care
Personalized Cancer Care
03/16/2011 3:15 PM KresgeMichael Yaffe, Professor of Biology, MIT; Michael T. Hemann, Latham Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT; David M. Livingston, Emil Frei Professor of Genetics and Medicine, Harvard Medical Schoo; Daniel A. Haber, Laurel Schwartz Professor of ...