Timing is everything for cancer protein p53
Biologists find that restoring the gene for p53 can slow the spread of advanced lung tumors, but doesn’t help early-stage cancers.
Food and Water
Researchers model the effects of competition for global water resources on agriculture.
Lindquist receives National Medal of Science
President Obama presents nation’s top science awards at White House ceremony Wednesday.
A better way to target tumors
In spite of slow progress toward targeting cancer drugs to individual patients, hope remains.
The surprising physics of cats’ drinking
A new study reveals that even the way cats lap up liquid displays the perfect balance for which they’re known.
A new target for cancer drugs
Shutting down an enzyme that responds to DNA damage could boost the effects of traditional chemotherapy.
7 win presidential early career honors
MIT has greatest number of recipients from a single institution.
First heavy ion collisions in the Large Hadron Collider
MIT physicists are leading one of the experiments analyzing new data.
Fine-tuning photosynthesis
MIT analysis shows how synthetic systems for capturing the sun’s energy could be made more efficient.
Four from MIT are Stewardship Science Graduate fellows
Graduate students take practicum at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
More than just a pretty flower
MIT chemists engineer the periwinkle plant to produce compounds that could become more effective cancer drugs.
A decade of OCW benefits: Drawing talent to MIT
OpenCourseWare gives student confidence that he can work at the MIT level.
Tracing Earth’s history
Geologists aim to improve the accuracy of their process for dating ancient rocks.
Brain control
Ed Boyden is learning how to alter behavior by using light to turn neurons on and off.