Tyler Jacks, PhD, will step down from the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. after serving as director for over 19 years. Dr. Jacks will continue cancer genetics ...

For people who are at high risk of developing breast cancer, frequent screenings with ultrasound can help detect tumors early. MIT researchers have now developed a miniaturized ultrasound system that ...

Individuals with advanced cancer frequently undergo several rounds of various treatments, which can lead to undesirable side effects and might not always be effective. To broaden the available ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Cancer survivor Dr. Regina Barzilay is a cancer survivor who is using her experience to help others. The professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology helped develop a way for ...

Engineers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have devised a new way to detect cancer that has spread to the liver, by enlisting help from probiotics — beneficial bacteria ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Regina Barzilay’s world turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014. It seemed to come out of nowhere ...

A project at MIT has developed microparticles able to be implanted at a tumor site and deliver two types of therapeutic treatment. As reported in ACS Nano, the particles enable both chemotherapy and ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received a $100-million donation for a new cancer-research center from an alumnus who is a prostate-cancer survivor, MIT officials announced on Tuesday.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received a $100-million pledge from David H. Koch — an executive vice president of Koch Industries and an alumnus — to build a new cancer-research center.

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Researchers in Class of 1942 Professor of Chemistry Matthew D. Shoulders' lab have uncovered a sinister hidden mechanism that ...