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A personal cancer treatment vaccine that targets distinctive “neoantigens” on tumor cells has been shown to stimulate a potent, safe, and highly specific immune anti-tumor response in melanoma patients, report scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The study, published online by Nature “provides proof-of-principle that a personal vaccine tailored to a patient’s

Tremendous efforts have been made to develop kinase inhibitors as cancer treatments In a paper published April 12 in the journal Cell, a team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill unveils the first broad-based test for activation of protein kinases “en masse,” enabling measurement of the mechanism behind drug-resistant cancer and rational

Allows people to try on clothes before taking their final selection to the dressing room   At CES 2012, Microsoft has been demoing a concept that they hope will one day get adopted by retailers. This electronic mirror relies on the Kinect gaming system and basically allows people to try on clothes before taking their

New technique developed at MIT could produce strong, resilient nanofibers for many applications. Researchers at MIT have developed a process that can produce ultrafine fibers — whose diameter is measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter — that are exceptionally strong and tough. These fibers, which should be inexpensive and easy to produce, could

IASS and KIT develop a technology to produce hydrogen from methane without carbon dioxide emissions The production of energy from natural gas without generating carbon dioxide emissions could fast become a reality, thanks to a novel technology developed by researchers of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam and the Karlsruhe Institute of

“Our robot can go places people can’t, particularly in areas of power plants that are radioactively contaminated,” Several snake-like robots have been developed around the world, and while we keep hearing about their potential applications few have managed to slither outside of their research labs. Earlier this year Carnegie Mellon University’s Biorobotics Lab put its modular snake

HARVARD-LED STUDY REVEALS AGING NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM SHORT-CHANGES CUSTOMERS, CONTRIBUTES TO GREENHOUSE GAS BUILDUP Imagine if every time you filled your car with gas, a few gallons didn’t make it into the tank and instead spilled onto the ground. That’s essentially what happens every day with the aging system of underground pipes and tanks

Some people will stop at nothing to snap up a bargain — even if it means paying too much.

Drawing inspiration from the structure of bones and bamboo, researchers have found that by gradually changing the internal structure of metals they can make stronger, tougher materials that can be customized for a wide variety of applications – from body armor to automobile parts. “If you looked at metal under a microscope you’d see that