David Julius ’77 shares the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
MIT alumnus and one other honored for their discoveries of how the nervous system senses temperature and touch.
MIT alumnus and one other honored for their discoveries of how the nervous system senses temperature and touch.
With the MIT campus as a test bed, a citizen science effort provides lessons well beyond MIT.
A new study shows oxygenic photosynthesis likely evolved between 3.4 and 2.9 billion years ago.
PhD student Ying Gao's research reveals that the urban poor in the developing world are politically engaged and capable of effecting change.
Current and former MIT researchers find novel tools can improve the sustainability of road networks on a limited budget.
MIT engineers devised a way to count elusive circulating tumor cells in mice, allowing them to study the dynamics of metastasis.
Scientists employ an underused resource — radiology reports that accompany medical images — to improve the interpretive abilities of machine learning algorithms.
A study of mice watching movies shows our brain cells rely on a circuit of inhibitory neurons to help ensure that the same images are represented consistently.
Neural network identifies synergistic drug blends for treating viruses like SARS-CoV-2.
An AI-enhanced system enables doctors to spend less time searching for clinical information and more time treating patients.
An electrical impedance tomography toolkit lets users design and fabricate health and motion sensing devices.
Engineers have designed a relatively low-cost, energy-efficient approach to treating water contaminated with heavy metals.
The researchers hope scientists and regulators will consider a broader class of compounds in evaluating cancer risk due to PAH exposure.
New research by political science PhD candidate Meicen Sun illuminates the broad economic and political impacts of internet restrictions.
Figur8, founded by MIT alumna Nan-Wei Gong SM ’09, PhD ’13, offers a wearable sensor system to improve the diagnosis and treatment of muscle injuries.