Health & Medicine

Creating a permanent bacteria barrier

By By Rob Matheson, MIT News Office | 16 Oct 2013

Germ warfare: when attacking bacteria ‘hijack’ the human body’s own defences

15 Oct 2013

New research has revealed that bacteria are ‘hijacking’ the human body’s own immune defences to adapt inside our body and survive our immune response

Go to bed! Irregular bedtimes linked to behavioral problems in children

14 Oct 2013

Efforts to delay ageing better investments than advances in cancer, heart disease

12 Oct 2013

Urine biomarkers reveal mitochondrial dysfunction in diabetic kidney disease

12 Oct 2013

Stress and cancer link: stress gene enables cancer’s spread

08 Oct 2013

Scientists have linked the activation of a stress gene in immune-system cells to the spread of breast cancer to other parts of the body, in  a study that shows how our own bodies help turn cancer against us

New view of dengue fever

By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 08 Oct 2013

Mutated stem cells trigger pituitary tumours in children

05 Oct 2013

Computer scientists develop new approach to sort cells up to 38 times faster

05 Oct 2013

Indigenous vaccine for Japanese encephalitis launched

05 Oct 2013

The strain for this vaccine was isolated from the blood sample of an encephalitic patient admitted to government hospital in Karnataka

Seeing through silicon

By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 05 Oct 2013

Cocaine use can make otherwise resistant immune cells susceptible to HIV

By By Enrique Rivero | 04 Oct 2013

Indian initiative Avahan Aids may have prevented 600,000 HIV infections over 10 years

30 Sep 2013

‘Jekyll-and-Hyde’ protein offers a new route to cancer drugs

30 Sep 2013

New type of fluorescent camera for blood diagnostics, brain mapping developed

By By Matthew Chin | 28 Sep 2013

Inspired by wireless technology, FIRE speeds up biological imaging process

Ballet dancers’ brains adapt to stop them getting in a spin

27 Sep 2013

UCLA researchers' smartphone 'microscope' can detect a single virus, nanoparticles

By By Bill Kisliuk | 23 Sep 2013

Scientists closer to universal flu vaccine after pandemic “natural experiment”

23 Sep 2013

Propofol discovery may help lead to development of new anaesthetics

23 Sep 2013

Obese cancer patients losing out on adequate chemo dosage: Experts

23 Sep 2013

Tiny bottles and melting corks: temperature regulates new delivery system for drugs and fragrances

21 Sep 2013

MERS coronavirus may have transmitted from animals to humans more than once

21 Sep 2013

Doctors 'vacuum' 2-foot blood clot out of patient's heart

By By Elaine Schmidt | 21 Sep 2013

Study aims to develop new Parkinson's drug

20 Sep 2013

Biologists develop new method for identifying antibiotics

20 Sep 2013