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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Technologies that provide information about the concentrations or activities of specific molecules in living subjects have the potential to greatly advance science and medicine. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a tool ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Twenty five percent of all the deaths worldwide are caused by infectious diseases. They are also the biggest cause of mortality among children under five years of age. Among them diarrheal diseases alone cause as many ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Filamentous bacteriophage (M13) are excellent biological build block due to their multiple peptide display system including type 8 (complete peptide display at pVIII) and type 83 (complete peptide display at both pVIII and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)An understanding of the factors involved in the human adaptation of influenza A viruses is critical for various aspects of influenza preparedness, including the development of appropriate surveillance measures, preventive ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The epithelial cell-extracellular matrix interface primarily comprises of complex glycans and glycoconjugates. The widespread distribution of these glycans on the epithelial cell surface makes them ideal targets for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are a family of complex carbohydrates whose known biological roles have dramatically increased over the recent years. It is now becoming increasingly evident that sequence specific GAG-protein ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Specific interactions between heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans (HSGAGs) and proteins are central to a wide range of biological processes such as anticoagulation, angiogenesis and growth factor activation. The specificity ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are complex polysaccharides that exist both on the cell surface and free within the extracellular matrix. The intrinsic sequence variety stemming from the large number of building blocks that ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Human adaptation of avian influenza viruses pose an enormous public health challenge as the human population is predominantly naive to avian influenza antigens. As such, constant surveillance is needed to monitor the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Environmental bacteria display tremendous genetic diversity, but we are still learning how this diversity arises and relates to their wide range of habitats. Investigating how bacteria adapt helps us understand their ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Tamoxifen resistance is the biggest problem in endocrine treatment against hormone receptor positive breast cancer patients. HER2 is a membrane receptor tyrosine kinase that is known to correlate with poor disease outcome ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Vaccines have benefited global health by controlling or eradicating life threatening diseases. With better understanding of infectious diseases and immunity, more interest has been placed on stimulating mucosal immune ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Recognition of polymicrobial infections is becoming important for understanding differential host responses to environmental exposures, vaccines, as well as therapeutics. Citrobacter rodentium is a well-characterized model ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Mitotic homologous recombination is a critical pathway for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks and broken replication forks. Although homologous recombination is generally error-free, recombination between misaligned ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The extracellular matrix of tumors is a major barrier to the delivery of molecular medicine. We used fluorescence recovery after photobleaching combined with intravital microscopy to quantitate the transport properties of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Linkage disequilibrium studies have discovered few gene-disease associations for common diseases. The explanation has been offered that complex modes of inheritance govern risk for cancers, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The volume of protein structure data has grown rapidly over the past 30 years, leaving a wake of facts that still require explanation. We endeavored to answer a few open questions on the structure-function relationship of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Cancer is a leading cause of death in the world. Much work has been done to study the role of inflammation in carcinogenesis. One hypothesis suggests that inflammation causes oxidative stress that induces damage to cellular ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This thesis describes the identification and characterization of a novel 'layer' of intrinsic non-genetic functional heterogeneity within the seemingly homogeneous naive CD8⁺ T cell population in their survival and ...
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