News

• Prof. Yanik receives NIH Director's Pioneer Award

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• Our pending PATENT on mRNA reprogramming is now licensed by STEMGENT INC.

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• "Mass-screening of drug candidates on tiny animals", The Economist, Nov 2010.

• "Worm surgery on a chip", Nature, Oct 2010.

• ""High throughput laser neurosurgery screening of Caenorhabditis elegans", Nature Science-Business eXchange, Oct 2010.

• "Microchip technology rapidly identifies compounds for regrowing nerves, in live animals", MIT Front Page News, Oct 2010.

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• Prof. Yanik receives NIH Transformative Research Award.

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• "Cell reprogramming with mRNA", MIT Front Page News, July 2010.

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• "Fishing at cellular level", Nature Methods, Aug 2010.

• "Platform for high-throughput zebrafish screens", Nature Science-Business eXchange, Aug 2010.

• "MIT researchers patent technology for large-scale, high-speed study of zebrafish larvae", Drug Discovery News, July 2010.

• "Imaging fish on the fly: Technique cuts time needed to analyze effects of potential drugs", MIT Front Page News, July 2010.

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• Prof. Yanik receives NIH EUREKA Award, 2009.

• Prof. Yanik receives NSF Career Award, 2009.

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• "Quantum Electron Microscopy for imaging live specimen", Popular Mechanics, 2009.

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• "Screening Whole", The Scientist, 2009.

• "On-chip suction stops worm wiggling", Chemical Technology and Chemistry World, April 30th, 2008.

• "Live-animal nerve regeneration study gets a boost", MIT News, April 10th, 2008.

• "Regeneration of Nerves" on ABC Radio National "The Science Show" April 5th, 2008.

• "Fast forward: Here's what's next for tech", Boston Globe, June 2nd, 2008.

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• Prof. Yanik is awarded Sloan Research Fellowship in Neuroscience, 2008.

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• Prof. Yanik receives Packard Award in Science and Engineering, 2007.

“Yanik wins Packard fellowship for neural microchip work”, Tech Talk, Oct. 17th , 2007.

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• Prof. Yanik is awarded NIH Director's Innovator Award, 2007.

“Boston young investigators take home big NIH prizes”, Nature Boston, Sept. 19th , 2007.

“Boston dominates NIH grants to innovators”, Boston Globe, Sept. 18th , 2007.

“NIH Director Invests in Innovation, New Investigators”, NIH News, Sept. 18th , 2007

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• “A chip full of worms”, Nature Boston, Oct. 23rd , 2007.

• “New microfluidic devices sort and screen small animals.” Analytical Chemistry, American Chemical Society, Nov. 1st, 2007.

• “Automated, 3-D, submicron-resolution imaging of C. elegans” Biophotonics International, Nov 2007.

• “Worms and the Human Brain”, Technology Review, Sept. 14th, 2007.

• MIT invents 'lab on a chip' to automate whole-animal genetic and drug screens, 2007.

• "Worm research hits the fast lane", Bioscience Technology, Dec. 07, 2007.

• Prof. Yanik is selected "One of world’s top 35 innovators under age 35" by Technology Review Magazine, 2007 http://www.trblogs.com/tr35/

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• Dr. Yanik joins MIT faculty , 2006.

• "Lone Neuron Cut", Scientific American Mind, April/May 23rd, 2005.

• "Micro scalpel offers unprecedented precision", New Scientist, March 2005.

• "Laser Nanosurgery on a Worm", Biophotonics International, January 2005.

• "A Snip in Time May Save Lives: Laser-Cut Nerves Regenerate", Photonics Spectra, January 2005.

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• "How to Freeze Light in a Computer Chip", The Economist, March 2004.

• "Linear Optics Slow, Stop and Time Reverse Light", Laser Focus World, January 2005.

• "Light arrested in semiconductor forest", Nature, March 2004.

• "Light Storing Chip Charted", Cover story on Technology Research News Magazine, February 2004.

• "Stop Light on a Chip", Cover story on Physical Review Focus Magazine, February 2004.

• "Bringing Light to Heel", Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, 2005.

• "Scientists Discover way to capture light on silicon chips",Stanford News, March 10th, 2004.

• "Stanford team invents scheme for stopping light on chip", IEEE Editorial, May 2004.

• "Top Technology Research Advances of 2004", Technology Research News Magazine, 2004.

• "Scheme reverses light pulses", Technology Research News Magazine, April 6th/13th, 2005.

• "Switch Promises Optical Chips", Technology Research News Magazine, MIT Technology Review, November 2003.

• "MEMS-Tunable Photonic-Crystal Structure Allows for Highly Sensitive Optical Filters and Sensors", Materials Research Society News, May 2003.