This year's Daffodil Days Campaign at MIT brought in more money than ever before, raising more than $28,500 for the American Cancer Society. Sis DeBordenave and Janet Plotkin of the Women's League, left, and Mike Fahie of Facilities help deliver some of the flowers on March 16. Three thousand bouquets were ordered, and an additional 450 'gifts of hope' were delivered to patients receiving chemotherapy and radiation: half to Massachusetts General Hospital and half to Mount Auburn Hospital. Photo / Donna Coveney
MIT spinout Electrified Thermal Solutions has developed an electrically conductive firebrick that stores heat at high enough temperatures to power industrial processes.
By examining antigen architectures, MIT researchers built a therapeutic cancer vaccine that may improve tumor response to immune checkpoint blockade treatments.