New bionics center established at MIT with $24 million gift
Interdisciplinary research center funded by philanthropist Lisa Yang aims to mitigate disability through technologies that marry human physiology with electromechanics.
Chemical engineering meets cancer immunotherapy
Sachin Bhagchandani wins NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition (F99/K00) Award.
New programmable gene editing proteins found outside of CRISPR systems
Researchers find RNA-guided enzymes are more diverse and widespread than previously believed.
Engineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing
Studying these organoids could help researchers develop and test new treatments for pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of cancer.
J-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food technologies
This year’s projects address mobile evaporative vegetable preservation, portable water filtration, and dairy waste reduction.
Helping underrepresented doctoral students of color thrive in the broader MIT community
For the past seven years, the MIT University Center for Exemplary Mentoring has created a robust infrastructure of resources, people, and support.
Climate and sustainability classes expand at MIT
MIT offers over 120 undergraduate classes related to sustainability, a sign of growing student and faculty interest in the environmental impacts of their fields.
Helping companies optimize their websites and mobile apps
MIT alumni-founded Amplitude offers tools to help companies respond to the ways users interact with their digital products.
Scientists harness human protein to deliver molecular medicines to cells
Made of components found in the human body, the programmable system is a step toward safer, targeted delivery of gene editing and other molecular therapeutics.
Company founded by MIT alumnus lets anyone run DNA experiments
MiniPCR bio has sold thousands of its inexpensive polymerase chain reaction machines to researchers and schools around the world.
Biological engineers find a new target for malaria drugs
Blocking a key enzyme could kill parasites that have evolved resistance to existing drugs.
New device can diagnose Covid-19 from saliva samples
The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Gerald Wogan, professor emeritus of biological engineering, chemistry, and toxicology, dies at 91
Pioneering scientist isolated, characterized, and established the mechanisms of many environmental toxins relevant to public health.
New method opens the door to efficient genome writing in bacteria
Technique for editing bacterial genomes can record interactions between cells, may offer a way to edit genes in the human microbiome.
A new way to detect the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant in wastewater
SMART researchers have developed an innovative method to detect and quantify the B.1.1.7 (Alpha) variant of concern via wastewater epidemiology.