Gordon Foundation plans $20 million gift to MIT

The Gordon Foundation has announced its intention to make a gift of $20 million to the MIT School of Engineering to launch a major program to prepare students for engineering leadership.

Protein suppresses spread of prostate cancer

A protein whose function is lost in a broad array of cancers normally suppresses the spread of prostate cancer, MIT researchers and colleagues have shown. As a result, testing for loss of the protein, called Protein 4.1B, could help clinicians predict which cancers are likely to spread, or metastasize.