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  • Tiny particles could fight brain cancer

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    May 24, 2018
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    Nanoparticles carrying two drugs can cross the blood-brain barrier and shrink glioblastoma tumors. Glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain tumor, is one of the most difficult-to-treat cancers. Only a handful of drugs are approved to treat glioblastoma, and the median life expectancy for patients diagnosed with the disease is less than 15 months. MIT researchers…

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  • Jeff Gore: A physicist exploring population dynamics of microbes

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    May 15, 2018
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    MIT Professor sees many "big, deep questions in biology" that benefit from study by both physicists and life scientists. It’s a pretty good bet that among MIT’s physics faculty, Jeff Gore is the only one with test tubes of yeast growing in his lab. Gore, a biophysicist who studies population dynamics, uses yeast and other…

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  • Protecting confidentiality in genomic studies

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    May 8, 2018
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    Cryptographic system could enable "crowdsourced" genomics, with volunteers contributing information to privacy-protected databases. Genome-wide association studies, which look for links between particular genetic variants and incidence of disease, are the basis of much modern biomedical research. But databases of genomic information pose privacy risks. From people’s raw genomic data, it may be possible to infer…

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