Health sciences and technology

What causes motor complications of Parkinson's treatment?MIT study identifies genes linked to key side effect; work signals new approaches

Burgeoning field of neurotech spawns brainy businessesMIT positioning students for rapidly growing discipline

Altered brain activity in schizophrenia may cause exaggerated focus on selfStudy links schizophrenia to key 'default mode' in brain

Too much of a good thingExcessive DNA repair can lead to retinal degeneration

Gold particles deliver more than just glitterNanoparticles could carry drugs to treat cancer, other diseases

Surprising find could lead to better manufacturing options for cancer-fighting antibodies

How to fight malaria by changing the environmentLeveling land can help control disease's spread, computer modeling finds

Sasisekharan named new HST director at MIT

Cima named faculty director of Lemelson-MIT ProgramSucceeding Flemings as of Jan. 1, 2009

Conclusive evidence that tainted heparin caused allergic reactionsEpidemiological study provides the final link

MIT students take top prizes in national inventors' contestLu awarded $25,000 grand prize, Schroll takes top undergraduate honors

A new class of catalysts

Singing in slow motionMIT work with songbirds could aid study of humans' timing

Ann Graybiel named Institute Professor

Immunity, from the cell's point of viewChemical engineers study immune cells in unprecedented detail

Setting the paceMIT pieces together the mechanism that allows two pacemakers to control breathing

Mending broken hearts with tissue engineeringNew scaffold approach could also aid engineering of other tissues

MIT neuroscience bolstered by new faculty, viral core facility

Whitehead director Page named to the Institute of Medicine

Worms provide clues for treating brain diseases

Three faculty win '08 NIH Pioneer Awards

Robot wheelchair finds its own wayMIT invention responds to user's spoken commands