Science news articles about 'cambridge mass'

  • Lab complex proposed for Cambridge

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 23 (UPI) -- A California developer said it wants to build a $1 billion life science laboratory complex in Cambridge, Mass.
  • Smell receptors mass produced in the lab

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. biological engineers say they have developed a method to mass-produce smell receptors in the laboratory, paving the way to creating artificial noses.
  • Mass. woman does home genetics testing

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 11 (UPI) -- A U.S. genetic researcher says she believes there's a market among hobbyists who'd want to buy equipment to test their own DNA sequences.
  • Songbird learning takes two brain paths

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 1 (UPI) -- U.S. neuroscientists say they've discovered immature and adult birdsongs are driven by two separate brain pathways, rather than just one that slowly matures.
  • Talking up a new role for cell phones in telemedicine

    ... ,” says study leader George M. Whitesides, Ph.D., a professor of chemistry at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Two recent studies by other researchers showed that cell phones can be used to ...
  • Cell phones bring medicine to remote areas

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 6 (UPI) -- U.S. and Brazilian researchers have developed an inexpensive system to provide advanced medical services to remote areas using ordinary cell-phone cameras.
  • MIT building low-cost solar concentrator

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 7 (UPI) -- A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students are building a prototype power concentrator that they say might revolutionize the solar energy field.
  • Caution urged for kids' anti-obesity drugs

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists are urging caution in giving children anti-obesity drugs, saying the medications might interfere with neural development.
  • Study discovers how body size is regulated

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 13 (UPI) -- A German-U.S. study has discovered 10 new genes related to human growth in a finding scientists say might explain why people distinctly vary in size.
  • New way found to control bacteria growth

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have found they can control the amount of bacteria adhering to surfaces by controlling the stiffness of some polymer films.
  • MIT creates new material for fuel cells

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 19 (UPI) -- U.S. engineers say they have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent by creating a new fuel cell membrane.
  • Estrogen helps drive distinct, aggressive form of prostate cancer

    ... Todd Golub and other members of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in Cambridge, Mass. His team is now continuing this line of research at Weill Cornell. Dr. Rubin, along with ...
  • Doctors fail to report income

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 8 (UPI) -- Three researchers at Harvard University in Massachusetts are suspected of failing to report a large portion of their income to the university, officials say.
  • Stripes key to nanoparticle drug delivery

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've created a nanoparticle that can penetrate a cell without destroying its protective membrane and killing it.
  • Potential new weapon against TB: free cell minutes

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Researchers at MIT believe they've discovered a new weapon in the battle against tuberculosis: Free cell phone minutes....

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