by RLE at MIT | Sep 20, 2011 | Awards, News Links
Grants support biomedical research that will ‘challenge the status quo’ with risk-taking, innovative ideas. «more» Related Links: EECS Announcement Five from MIT win NIH grants Professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik Professor...
by RLE at MIT | Nov 29, 2010 | News Links
Mehmet Fatih Yanik and his research group have created a miniature production line to streamline the process of testing drugs on worms. Their system is able to isolate a worm, perform precise laser surgery on it in order to sever just one of its neurons, treat it with...
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...
by RLE at MIT | Jul 26, 2010 | News Links
In recent years, scientists have shown that they can reprogram human skin cells to an immature state that allows the cells to become any type of cell. This ability, known as pluripotency, holds the promise of treating disease. Now, for the first time, Mehmet Fatih...
by RLE at MIT | Jul 19, 2010 | News Links
With the aim of enabling rapid, large-scale studies of living organisms, Mehmet Fatih Yanik’s research group in RLE has engineered a new imaging technique that can analyze zebrafish—a tiny fish with transparent embryos, or larvae, whose internal organs can be easily...
