• Nanoparticles for gene therapy improve

    About five years ago, Professor Janet Sawicki at the Lankenau Institute in Pennsylvania read an article about nanoparticles developed by MIT’s Robert Langer for gene therapy, the insertion of genes into living cells for the treatment of disease. Sawicki was working on treating ovarian cancer by delivering — through viruses — the gene for the diphtheria toxin, which kills tumor cells.

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  • The politics of climate fixes

    Judith Layzer, an assistant professor of environmental policy in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, was among the speakers at last Friday’s daylong symposium on “Engineering a Cooler Earth.” She immediately changed the tone of the day’s presentations by dispensing with graphs and charts and speaking only with the aid of her quite expressive gestures.

  • Inventor, lawyer and lecturer Robert H. Rines dies aged 87

    Robert H. Rines, an internationally recognized patent lawyer, inventor, musical composer and Loch Ness monster hunter who lectured at MIT from 1963 until his retirement last year, died on Sunday, Nov. 1. He was 87.

  • MIT: An engine of energy innovation

    DOE makes awards for transformative energy technologies

  • Secure computers aren’t so secure

    Even well-defended computers can leak shocking amounts of private data. MIT researchers seek out exotic attacks in order to shut them down

  • IDEAS Competition team Lebônê Solutions wins Popular Mechanics award

    A dirt-powered battery developed by Lebônê Solutions Inc., a 2009 MIT IDEAS Competition team, was recently named one of the 10 Most Brilliant Innovations of 2009 by Popular Mechanics Magazine.

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