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
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
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
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
UCLA researchers' smartphone 'microscope' can detect a single virus, nanoparticles
By By Bill Kisliuk | 23 Sep 2013
Tiny bottles and melting corks: temperature regulates new delivery system for drugs and fragrances
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
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