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Browsing Health Sciences and Technology - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Issue Date
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Aphasia is an impairment in the expression or comprehension of language that results from stroke, traumatic brain injury or progressive neurological disease. Approximately one million people in the United States suffer ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This work investigates the fundamental processes used by mammalian cells and organisms to make decisions during embryonic development. Current technologies that evaluate biological phenomenon often force a compromise between ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Cancer is a complex disease of the genome exhibiting myriad somatic mutations, from single nucleotide changes to various chromosomal rearrangements. The technological advances of next-generation sequencing enable high-throughput ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women and the deadliest gynecologic cancer. The current standard treatment for advanced ovarian cancer includes a minimally invasive cytoreduction ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Angiogenesis- the growth of new capillaries from existing vessels- is required for tumor growth; however, tumor vessels exhibit abnormal structure and function, which impairs the targeted delivery of anti-cancer agents. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Elucidation of molecular mechanisms underlying metastasis is the final frontier in cancer biology research. Identifying individual pathways in the metastatic cascade could lead to development of metastasis-specific ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Cancer is responsible for over 7.6 million deaths worldwide; the majority of patients fail to respond to drugs or become resistant over time. In order to gain a better understanding of drug efficacy in patients, we developed ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Two different hemodynamic-based neuroimaging techniques were studied in this work. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) is a promising technique to measure cerebral hemodynamics in a clinical setting due to its potential for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) is a relatively new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition technique that generates contrast dependent on tissue microenvironment, such as protein concentration and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Bacterial infections continue to be a significant concern particularly in healthcare settings and in the developing world. Current challenges include the increasing spread of drug resistant (DR) organisms, the side effects ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response that results the presence and persistence of microorganisms or their toxins in the bloodstream and it is diagnosed by detecting the presence of pathogens in blood. Despite ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Cell-based therapies, which rely on transplanted cells to restore function to damaged tissues, are currently under investigation in clinical trials. Stem and progenitor cells, including mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), have ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Vaccines have revolutionized medicine by increasing the life expectancy of children and substantially decreasing the morbidity of multiple infectious diseases worldwide. Over several decades, we have acquired significant ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The requirement that individual cells be able to communicate with one another over a range of length scales is a fundamental prerequisite for the evolution of multicellular organisms. Often diffusible chemical molecules ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Mucus is a biological hydrogel which lines the wet (non-keratinized) epithelia of the body. Mucus provides a gateway between the cells of the epithelium and the outside world, and is postulated to provide a selective ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The adaptive immune system is one of the primary mediators in almost every major human disease, including infections, cancer, autoimmunity, and inflammation-based disorders. It fundamentally functions as a molecular ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)When viewed under the microscope, biological tissues reveal an exquisite microarchitecture. These complex patterns arise during development, as cells interact with a multitude of chemical and mechanical cues in the surrounding ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Acoustic overexposure can cause death of cochlear nerve fibers, even if elevations in cochlear sensitivity are reversible and even if there is no hair cell loss. We hypothesized that this primary neural degeneration does ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)One in every 88 children is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs), a set of neurodevelopmental conditions characterized by social impairments, communication deficits, and repetitive behavior. ASDs have a substantial ...
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