by RLE at MIT | Oct 18, 2010 | Awards, News Links
MIT physicist Martin Zwierlein has won a 2010 David and Lucille Packard Fellowship — a five-year, unrestricted research grant totaling $875,000. Zwierlein, an assistant professor of physics, is one of 17 recipients of this year’s awards, which are among nation’s...
by RLE at MIT | Oct 13, 2010 | News Links
Engineers at MIT have now used a new microchip technology to rapidly test potential drugs on tiny worms called C. elegans, which are often used in studies of the nervous system. Using the new technology, associate professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik and his colleagues...