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The Marble Center celebrates its 10th anniversary, showcases success stories behind translating experiments to clinical products
Founded in 2016, the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine is a collective of faculty research labs that aims to advance cancer nanomedicine, a field that seeks to detect, treat, and monitor cancer progression through biomaterials only a few water molecules in size.
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Sleeping cancer cells hijack the wound healing pathway to wake up
New research shows that the awakening of disseminated cancer cells is caused by inflammation in the tissue microenvironment.
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Cysteine may be the secret to repairing gut damage
A new MIT study has identified that cysteine initiates the regeneration of the intestinal lining by activating intestinal stem cells.
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Ticked off: How Mikki Tal is using Lyme disease to transform women’s health research
Chronic illness is a disproportionately female problem. Dr. Michal “Mikki” Tal took action, not just because she’s a woman, but because she’s an MIT immunoengineer.