Steele Lab

Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology researchers develop a new imaging technique that allows labs to visualize tumors inside animal models. 

September, 2009

Rakesh Jain, the A. Werk Cook professor of radiation oncology (tumor biology) at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), ... read more ...

                 May 15, 2009

The beneficial effects of anti-angiogenesis drugs in the treatment of the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas appear to result primarily from reduction of edema – the swelling of brain tissue – and not from any direct anti-tumor effect, according to a study from Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). ... read more .

                 March 30, 2009

Even the most potent cancer drug faces a daunting task once it arrives at its destination, namely, cutting through the thick and thorny extracellular matrix that surrounds tumors and their blood vessels. . . ...  read more.
    

               February 6, 2009

Controlling body weight is a simple matter of balancing how much you eat against how much you burn, right? For some, maybe, but HMS researchers have devised a mathematical model of energy balance and body weight that suggests a more complicated equation. . . ...  read more .

           January 9, 2009

Manipulating levels of nitric oxide, a gas involved in many biological processes, may improve the disorganized network of blood vessels supplying tumors, potentially improving the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy. . . ...  read more .

                 February 27, 2008

Several years ago, Rakesh Jain and his lab members began peering at tumors in living mice, using implanted glass windows that let them monitor tumors and the blood vessels that fed them. . ... read more .

          February 9, 2007