Technology Review: Jan/Feb 2012

MIT News: March/April 2008

Engineering Cures

MIT researchers meld biology and engineering in the fight against cancer.
By Katherine Bourzac, SM ’04

Understanding Metastasis

Pioneering biologist Robert Weinberg, the first to discover a gene that causes cancer, is now studying how the disease spreads.

The Fearless Inventor

Saul Griffith likes taking risks--and attacks problems wherever they arise, without fear of failure.

77 Mass Ave.

An Unexpected Director

The Media Lab's wild child grows up ... sort of.

Proteins Linked to Nerve Fiber Development

Could lead to new therapies.

Running Hot and Cold

Nanotech makes thermoelectric materials viable.

MIT for High-School Students

Extending OpenCourseWare's reach.

Riding for Fusion

MIT Cycling provides energy for the largest human-powered computation ever.

Hootenanny

Tracking owls with cell phones.

Meet the Author

Public Offering

Business in the age of Wikipedia.

Seen on Campus

Personal Space, Redefined

A student designs the Monumental Helium Inflatable Wearable Floating Body Mass for Give Me Shelter.

Alumni Letters

Alumni Letters

Letters from our readers.

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Nothing like a Dame

Women's League continues tradition of service.

My View

After Dinner, a Tiny Slice of Pi

Applying Dad's lessons.

Donor Profile

Thomas DiPrete and Katherine Ewing

New York, NY

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