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'Living Weapon' film features MIT bioweapons expert
02-02-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)MIT security studies expert Jeanne Guillemin is among those featured in a Feb. 5 PBS documentary, "American Experience: The Living Weapon," that looks at America's top-secret program to develop biological weapons.
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- MIT site puts human face on Iraq war
01-18-2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
As the war in Iraq approaches its fifth anniversary, a new MIT web site aims to provide an accurate account of living conditions, as well as civilian injuries and deaths due to political violence, throughout the Middle Eastern state.
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- MIT student turns hearing loss into knowledge gain
10-03-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Brad Buran, a Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology graduate student, lost his hearing when he was 14 months old. Today, the fifth-year doctoral candidate is becoming an expert in the neuroscience of speech and hearing.
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- A 'micro pharmacy' inside
02-11-2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
A new thin-film coating developed at MIT can deliver controlled drug doses to specific targets in the body following implantation, essentially serving as a "micro pharmacy." The film could eventually be used to deliver drugs for many diseases.
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- MIT's anti-microbial 'paint' kills flu, bacteria
11-30-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
A new "antimicrobial paint" developed at MIT can kill influenza viruses that land on surfaces coated with it, potentially offering a new weapon in the battle against a disease that kills nearly 40,000 Americans per year.
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- Do-it-alls vs. specialists -- Which products sell better?
02-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Does whitening toothpaste whiten teeth better than toothpaste that whitens and prevents cavities? Does a printer/fax/copy machine make lower-quality printouts than a standalone printer? In the March issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, a fascinating new study by Alexander Chernev (Northwestern University) reveals that people perceive products that emphasize a single feature to be more effective than products with multiple features.
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- MIT develops thin-film 'micro pharmacy'
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- New MIT tool probes brain circuits
01-24-2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Researchers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT report that they have created a way to see, for the first time, the effect of blocking and unblocking a single neural circuit on learning and memory in a living animal.
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- AIDS expert equates treatment, human rights
11-01-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Jim Yong Kim, the former HIV director at the World Health Organization, asked an MIT audience to recall the time when many health experts believed the best approach to AIDS in Africa was to let people die.
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- New MIT technique weighs single living cells
04-25-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
For the first time, MIT researchers have found a way to measure the mass of single cells with high accuracy. The technique could allow researchers to develop inexpensive diagnostic devices and offer a unique glimpse into cell division.
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- MIT hosts sneak preview of Apollo missions film
09-18-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Many of the engineers who developed the Apollo guidance system at MIT in the 1960s and 1970s were among the crowd that gathered Sept. 10 on campus for a special sneak preview of the documentary film, "In the Shadow of the Moon."
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