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  • Cell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs

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    November 20, 2017
    MIT-Treatment_0 Manalis

    Technique may predict which therapies a patient is most sensitive or resistant to. Doctors have many drugs available to treat multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. However, there is no way to predict, by genetic markers or other means, how a patient will respond to a particular drug. This can lead to months of…

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  • Gut microbes can protect against high blood pressure

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    November 15, 2017
    MIT-Salt-Microbiome_0

    Strain of intestinal bacteria can stop a high-salt diet from inducing inflammatory response linked to hypertension. Microbes living in your gut may help protect against the effects of a high-salt diet, according to a new study from MIT. The MIT team, working with researchers in Germany, found that in both mice and humans, a high-salt…

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  • Next-generation optogenetic molecules control single neurons

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    November 14, 2017
    MIT-Single-Cell-Optogenetics_0 Boyden

    Focused laser beam could help scientists map connections amoung neurons that underlie behavior. Researchers at MIT and Paris Descartes University have developed a new optogenetic technique that sculpts light to target individual cells bearing engineered light-sensitive molecules, so that individual neurons can be precisely stimulated. Until now, it has been challenging to use optogenetics to…

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