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The Innovators
BY RAJA MISHRA

In classrooms, labs, and hospitals, they're inventing the future

Into the fifth dimension

Nima Arkani-Hamed hasn't seen the fifth dimension. But he's pretty sure it's there, somewhere.

It's a small world

A hushed office in Building 8 at MIT stands at the cutting edge of small things.

A vaccine for cancer?

A company in Lexington is testing a striking cancer vaccine that could bring about a new era in treatment.

Sculpting life

It's a standby of high school biology courses the world over: The basic blackboard drawing of a cell that looks like a squishy puddle, a soggy balloon, a giant egg, with little organs floating about inside.

Defying dogma

When Massachusetts General Hospital's Dr. Jonathan Tilly was rooting around in fertility research during the 1990s, he kept running into "the dogma." It was something he'd learned in medical school, something he took for granted.

From idea to marketplace: Boston ecosystem at work

How one company, Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Cambridge, went from research breakthrough to IP0 in a few short years. (By Robert Weisman, Boston Globe)
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