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MIT and India to create health sciences institute
11-19-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)MIT and the government of India's Department of Biotechnology today launched a partnership that will result in the creation of a new Translational Health Science and Technology Institute in India. The new institute will include faculty from multiple disciplines and professions.
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- Lives of a cell
04-25-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- MIT device draws cells close -- but not too close -- together
03-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
In a popular children's game participants stand as close as possible without touching. But on a microscopic level, coaxing cells to be very, very close without actually touching one another has been among the most frustrating challenges for cell biologists. Now MIT researchers led by Sangeeta Bhatia, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, have solved the problem with a novel device.
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- NIEHS researchers identify enzyme critical in DNA replication
07-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
In this week's issue of Science, researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and Umeе University in Sweden report an important discovery about a critical new role that an enzyme called DNA polymerase epsilon plays in replicating DNA in higher organisms such as yeast and perhaps even humans.
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- Institute of Medicine elects Brown
10-13-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- OHSU Cancer Institute, 1 of largest in GIST study and Gleevec
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- New drug candidate knocks out resistant form of chronic myeloid leukemia
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- New federal chemical rules to impact MIT
01-04-2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- Inclusiveness, optimism among strengths of HST's Gray
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02-26-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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