Surprising find could lead to better manufacturing options for cancer-fighting antibodies
Anne Trafton, News Office
MIT engineers have found that antibodies do not need a particular sugar attachment long believed to be essential to their function, a discovery that could make producing therapeutic antibodies much easier and cheaper in the future.
Nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells
Chemical engineers use carbon nanotubes to monitor chemotherapy, detect toxins at the single-molecule level
Anne Trafton, News Office
MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.
Team sheds light on Alzheimer's mystery
Work could lead to new treatments for debilitating disease
Deborah Halber, News Office Correspondent
In work that could lead to new drugs to target Alzheimer's disease, MIT researchers and colleagues have shed light on one of the molecular mysteries surrounding this common form of dementia.
Reversing the conventional DNA wisdom
Researchers find DNA is transcribed by divergent polymerases
Anne Trafton, News Office
The copying of DNA's master instructions into messenger molecules of RNA, a process known as DNA transcription, has always been thought to be a unidirectional process whereby a copying machine starts and moves in one direction. But in work that represents a fundamental shift in scientists' understanding of the phenomenon, MIT researchers have found evidence that two DNA copying machines frequently start from the same site and move in different directions.
STUDY UNMASKS HOW OVARIAN TUMORS EVADE IMMUNE SYSTEM
-- Potential exists for drugs to halt shedding of fatty molecules, stop tumor growth and kill cancer
December 1, 2008- Scientists at Johns Hopkins have determined how the characteristic shedding of fatty substances, or lipids, by ovarian tumors allows the cancer to evade the body’s immune system, leaving the disease to spread unchecked. Ovarian cancer is considered to be one of the most aggressive malignancies, killing more than 70 percent of diagnosed women within five years, including an estimated 15,000 this year.
The Seminary of Nanoeducation of UAM-Azapotzalco is pleased to announce the book about "Nanotechnology Developments" with articles written by researchers of more than twenty universities from México, USA and Polland
Armando Barrañón, Editor. Research in Nanotechnology Developments. New York: Nova Science, 2009.
Going under the (robotic) knife
Engineering students design robots to remove tumors
Anne Trafton, News Office
Photo / Donna Coveney
Senior Paul Blascovich watches surgical robot operating from left,
while teaching assistant Lael Odhner plays with arm. Junior Tony
McDonald watches from back, Junior Ian Rust and instructor Harrison
Chin watch from center and right of "patient."
