by RLE at MIT | Aug 21, 2008 | News Links
MIT engineers report a new approach to identifying protein structures key to Alzheimer’s disease, an important step toward the development of new drugs that could prevent such structures from forming. «more» Related Links: MIT zeroes in on Alzheimer’s structures: Work...
by RLE at MIT | Aug 19, 2008 | News Links
In his darkened lab at MIT, Marc Baldo shines an ultraviolet lamp on a 10-*centimeter square of glass. He has coated the surfaces of the glass with dyes that glow faintly orange under the light. Yet the uncoated edges of the glass are shining more brightly–four neat,...
by RLE at MIT | Aug 14, 2008 | News Links
Using a novel system based on molecules that can assemble themselves into precise patterns, MIT researchers have come up with a way of beating size limitations that would otherwise crimp improvements in data-storage media and electronic microchips. «more» Related...
by RLE at MIT | Aug 4, 2008 | Awards, News Links
MIT has been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a pioneering doctoral-study program in the growing field of quantum information science (QIS), which has evolved rapidly recently with a new influx of ideas from quantum physics...
by RLE at MIT | Aug 4, 2008 | RLE News Articles
Major new grant to unify MIT’s strengths into an interdisciplinary doctoral study program spanning science and engineering The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program, has awarded a...