A Dangerous Meeting - 2013 Image Award Winner

Tuomas Tammela explains the science behind his fascinating image, A Dangerous Meeting: Blood Vessels and a Tumor Come Together.  Tuomas's image was selected as a winner of the 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards.  See all the winners ...

A Musical Score for Disease

Gil Alterovitz, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, translated populations of genes into musical notes. Each constellation (green) represents a key network of interrelated genes (blue). Each network is represented by a musical note. In healthy cells, the notes form music in harmony, ...

Are We as Crazy as Mad Cows?

03/29/2004 12:00 PM McGovernSusan L. Lindquist, Professor of Biology, MITDescription: When proteins in our body work properly, we can see, smell, consume and digest food, grow muscle and brain cells. But when these infinitely useful biological building blocks fail, the most pernicious ...

Bioengineering at MIT: Building Bridges Between the Sciences, Engineering ...

Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Ford Professor and Head of the Department of Biological Engineering, MIT; Linda G. Griffith, Professor, Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering ; Angela Belcher, Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and ...

Bridge Project Workshop, May 24 2012

Read more about the Bridge Project: http://ki.mit.edu/approach/partnerships/bridge

Bridging the Delivery Gap to Global Health

11/19/2007 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumDr. Jim Yong Kim, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard Medical School; Board of Directors, Partners in Health Description: Jim Yong Kim and Partners in Health are paradoxically suffering from their ...

Cancer Research in the Genomic Era

06/07/2006 2:30 PM 46-3002Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Member, Whitehead InstituteDescription: Eric Lander likens the current age of biological discovery to the days of great ocean-going exploration. After the world was mapped, ...

Cancer Stem Cells and Malignant Progression

Robert Weinberg - Whitehead Institute

Cellular Injections: 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards Winner

Alex Shalek explains the science behind his striking image, "Cellular Injections: Using Nanowires to Investigate the Causes of Leukemia." Alex's image was selected as a winner of the 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards.

Computational and Systems Approaches to Cancer

06/08/2006 8:00 AM 46-3002Michael Yaffe, Professor of Biology, MITDescription: Early on in his lecture, Michael Yaffe serves up an amazing fact: If the distance between each DNA base pair were one foot apart, then each time a cell divided, it would have to copy 568 ...

Conquering Cancer: Opening Remarks Reflections on Major Milestones in ...

03/16/2011 8:30 AM KresgeDavid A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Tyler Jacks, Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and ...

Creative Experimentation: Developing a Skill Critical for Managing Complex ...

A broad-based capacity for experimentation is critical for organizations to succeed because the systems in which people are embedded are increasingly complex and fast.

David Sabatini

Defining the Challenges Surrounding Innovation and Safety (Part One)

Frank L. Douglas, Executive Director, MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation; Professor of the Practice; Una Ryan, President & CEO, AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc.; Robert Tepper, President, Research and Development ; Millennium Pharmaceuticals; John A. Fallon, Chief ...

Delivering large molecules to cells through tiny holes in membranes

Researchers from MIT have now found a safe and efficient way to get large molecules through the cell membrane, by squeezing the cells through a narrow constriction that opens up tiny, temporary holes in the membrane.