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MIT

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, www.mit.edu) The largest research university in the U.S. devoted to science and technology. Founded in 1861 to meet the challenges of the newly industrialized world, MIT has been involved in developing advances in military defense, computers, telecommunications and artificial intelligence. MIT, along with Harvard, are considered the most prestigious universities in the world. More than 10,000 students and 1,000 faculty members took part in the 2011-2012 curriculum. See OpenCourseWare.

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MIT and HP encountered several challenges along the way to building the super archive.

MIT's super archive. (Up front: news, trends & analysis)

The project will include articles written by faculty and researchers, technical reports from MIT labs and centers, and other electronic content deemed valuable by the MIT Libraries or its partners among the schools, labs and centers at the university.

$1.8 MILLION PROJECT SERVES AS MODEL FOR OTHER UNIVERSITIES

Another ongoing project at MIT is directed at foams with open cell structures, which may have applications as filters and insulators.

Microcellular foams: lots of R&D, but little commercial action yet

Hou disagrees, saying the tRNA McClain used is not fully understood to be a normal tRNA, and that in the MIT experiments the nucleic acid change always made tRNAs with some specificity to alanine.

Second thoughts on second genetic code

The MIT Toxicogenomics Research Program is making considerable contribution to the field of toxicogenomics.