A boost for cancer immunotherapy
Engineers design nanoparticles that stimulate the immune system, helping it to attack tumors.
Engineers design nanoparticles that stimulate the immune system, helping it to attack tumors.
Automated tabletop machine could accelerate the development of novel drugs to treat cancer and other diseases.
Study: Vaccines find more success in development than any other kind of drug, but have been relatively neglected in recent decades.
Pathologists who examined the computationally stained images could not tell them apart from traditionally stained slides.
Drug compound, tested in mice, could be effective in treating the leading heritable cause of intellectual disability and autism.
The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is funding 10 research projects aimed at addressing the health and economic consequences of the pandemic.
Suggested design could make it easier to divide air flow for Covid-19 patients in emergencies when no other options are available.
Paper co-authored by MIT economist proposes a new way to handle medical shortages during the Covid-19 crisis.
Discovery explains why some bacteria have been able to defend against phage therapy, opens new ways to overcome existing challenges.
Differently shaped RNA molecules allow HIV to express different genes from the same RNA sequence.
MIT economist Pierre Azoulay outlines a roadmap for scientific success against the virus.
New CRISPR-based research tool delivers results in an hour; researchers share protocol and kits to advance research and move toward clinical validation.
“We volunteered because we thought it would be a great opportunity to give back to the MIT community in a time of necessity,” says Nathan Han.
MIT professor and intensivist/trauma surgeon explains the new challenges that Covid-19 brings to treating patients in acute respiratory distress.
Diagnostic platform CARMEN combines microfluidics with CRISPR-based detection technology SHERLOCK, and could one day be used for public health efforts.