Bio Flash Mobs

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Each year, approximately 200 people gathered in MIT's Hockfield Court, behind the Koch Institute, to kinesthetically re-enact the science and technology of a cutting-edge cancer treatment. View videos below.

On April 25, 2014, approximately 180 people gathered in an MIT courtyard to bring the science and engineering behind cancer immunotherapy to life. Watch the video below to see the reenactment in action, or get a behind-the-scenes perspective from participants in Cancer Immunotherapy Gets Flashy and Flash Mobbing Cancer Treatment. You can also view photos on Facebook.

This event was organized for the Cambridge Science Festival by the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. Learn more about how scientists and engineers at the Koch Institute are engineering the immune system to fight cancer or explore images in our Public Galleries to see what immunotherapy looks like in the laboratory.

On April 18, 2013, approximately 200 people gathered at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research to form a human strand of DNA and shut down a dangerous cancer driver.

This event was organized for the Cambridge Science Festival by the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. Learn more about RNA-based cancer therapeutics in our news archive and by watching talks from our 2014 Summer Symposium, RNA Biology, Cancer, and Therapeutic Implications.

On April 26, 2012, 200 Boston-area students, MIT scientists and local community members came together to bring targeted cancer therapeutics to life in the Bio Flash Mob. View photos on Facebook or watch the video below.

This event was organized for the Cambridge Science Festival by the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. Learn more about how scientists and engineers are working together at the Koch Institute to develop nanotechnology-based cancer therapeutics and explore our Public Galleries to discover new windows into the nanomaterial world.