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President Resigns; Was First Woman in the Job Saturday, February 18, 2012 By TAMAR LEWIN, The New York Times Susan Hockfield, the first woman and the first life scientist to serve as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced on...
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In cooperation with two commercial companies, scientists at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Case Western Reserve University created a chip that holds measured doses of teriparatide (brand name Forteo), an injectable drug used to...
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Buildings under a hazy skyline are seen in downtown Guangzhou, capital city of China's southern Guangdong province, in this November 17, 2004 file photo. China's worsening air pollution, after decades of unbridled economic growth, cost the country $112... View Photo »
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia, Stanford and Yale universities declined by 4.72 percent, 5.68 percent, 0.83 percent and 18.01 percent respectively
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"You can literally have a pharmacy on a chip," said Bob Langer, a professor at MIT. Langer and a team at MIT have developed an implantable microchip that is controlled wirelessly and can release drugs into the body at any time. "You can put many doses...
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“Now it’s unlocked for creativity,” Fried wrote. That could be the tagline for Adafruit, the company Fried founded in 2005 while getting her masters in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The...
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This is particularly true for patients who are required to give themselves injections - a time-consuming and unpleasant procedure that it's easy to "forget" to do. Scientists from MIT and Massachusetts-based company MicroCHIPS Inc. , however, have come...
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A man rides a tricycle carrying a couch on a road amid heavy smog in central Beijing, in this October 31, 2011 file photo. China's worsening air pollution, after decades of unbridled economic growth, cost the country $112 billion in 2005 in lost... View Photo »
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Jon Gruber, the MIT economist who helped design both the Massachusetts Health Plan and the Health Insurance Exchange provisions of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
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Farra is a co-author of the study, along with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard Medical School, OnDemand Therapeutics and Case Western Reserve University. Unlike most drug delivery devices, which release small...
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The technology "gives physicians a real-time connection to their patient's health, and patients are freed from the daily reminder, or burden, of disease," said co-author Robert Langer, a professor of cancer research at the Massachusetts Institute of...
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