In the Media

"Though the first phase of this 'HapMap' was just completed in February, early uses have already led to the discovery of genes involved in susceptibility to common diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, lower back problems, and blindness. Each one of these gene discoveries sheds new light on the biological basis of disease, which in turn provides new targets for therapies and new options for prevention."

"Imagining advances from lighter cars to smarter robots, President Barack Obama is announcing a $500 million project to spur high-technology manufacturing, a sector of U.S. industry that presidential advisers say has lost ground to such competitors as Germany and Japan."

"Scientists have honed in on certain parts of the HIV virus that could be the perfect targets for future drugs."

“We’ve launched an all-hands-on-deck effort between our brightest academic minds, some of our boldest business leaders and our most dedicated public servants from science and technology agencies, all with one big goal, and that is a renaissance of American manufacturing"...

"New research suggests that even infants can work out where the fault lies – they reason in the same way that adults do."

"The Billion Prices Project (BPP) estimates daily inflation in 70 countries."

"If billions are saved on the withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq, where will the money go? Where should it go?"

"If you haven’t already heard of Esther Duflo, you will."

"It is very clear to me--and I wish it were clear to everyone else--that the reason I am president of MIT right now is because of decades of very hard work by generations of women before me."

"In a keynote address at the conference, McAfee identified a potential threat to Enterprise 2.0: bosses who still subscribe to the heads-down, cubicle mentality, and the technology behind Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy-playing computer."

"Sangeeta Bhatia, a bioengineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and her colleagues found that using the two nanoparticles in tandem in mice increased the amount of drug delivered to a tumour by 40-fold relative to controls. Tumours in these mice stopped growing."

"For decades doctors have attacked cancer with drugs that kill malignant cells. Unfortunately, such chemotherapy kills a lot of healthy cells as well."

"Hacking seems to be everywhere these days. But what if someone tried to retrieve data from your pacemaker? Or even tried to give you an electric shock with it?"

"Researchers at Google and MIT think they have come up with a novel way to transfer applications and data to a cellphone without a cable or wireless network. Their transfer mechanism of choice? The camera."

"The MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass., and founded by the architect Nicholas Negroponte nearly 25 years ago, is famous for being a hotbed of radical innovation and futuristic vision."