Engineers design programmable RNA vaccines
Tests in mice show the vaccines work against Ebola, influenza, and a common parasite.
A strategy for “convergence” research to transform biomedicine
Report calls for more integration of physical, life sciences for needed advances in biomedical research.
Air quality sensors track pollution
Research from MIT's Tata Center for Technology and Design is helping to quantify emissions in the world’s most polluted cities.
Gene circuits in live cells can perform complex computations
Technique combines analogue and digital processes in engineered cells.
Powered by literature on her way toward an MD
Senior Cara Lai cites MIT Literature studies as key to her preparation for medical practice.
Center for Environmental Health Sciences announces 2016 call for pilot project proposals
Proposals are invited for basic and translational environmental health sciences research.
Lung cancer “breathalyzer” wins $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
Team’s smartphone-connected device can detect lung cancer early from a single breath.
Method for earlier detection of leukemia wins $300,000 grant
Team takes home grand prize from Koch Institute’s unique research-grant pitch competition.
New study shows rich, poor have huge mortality gap in U.S.
In unprecedented detail, lifespan gap shown to be large and growing rapidly.
Reprogramming gut bacteria as “living therapeutics”
Daily doses of synthetic biotics developed by startup Synologic may sense, treat metabolic diseases.
MIT Medical conducts first ever walk-in sexually transmitted infection clinic
Clinic serves as an opportunity for sexual-health education and testing.
J-PAL North America launches health care delivery innovation competition
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT aims to help U.S. health care leaders find solutions to key challenges in health care delivery.
3Q: Elfatih Eltahir on what malaria and Dengue can tell us about Zika
Environmental management approaches may be key in combating mosquito-borne infectious diseases.
Startup optimizes corporate health care plans
Software mines insurance claims data to determine best coverage for employees, within a budget.