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(Top) Stimulating the growth of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) in adipose tissue transforms the tissue from fat-storing white tissue to fat-burning brown tissue. A schematic of the nanoparticle (bottom left) that MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers used to deliver angiogenesis drugs to adipose tissue. (Bottom right) The nanoparticles imaged by transmission electron microscopy.

Fat-fighting nanoparticles

New drug-delivery approach holds potential for treating obesity.

May 2, 2016

MIT Energy Initiative awards nine seed fund grants for early-stage energy research

Winning teams will use grants to advance research in areas including fuel cells, solar-powered desalination, and impacts of electric vehicle charging on the power grid.

April 25, 2016

“I learned that MIT is a place that gives you the resources, and if you want to use them, you'll make something very beautiful and positively productive,” Juan Jaramillo says. “So I applied and fortunately I got in early. It was a dream come true.”

Combining curiosity with a desire to help

Senior Juan Jaramillo harnesses his natural curiosity to help others, while never forgetting his roots.

April 20, 2016

Two MIT faculty win 2016 NSF CAREER Awards

James Swan and Konstantin Turitsyn are among 160 young scientists and engineers poised to explore new frontiers and inspire a future generation of scholars.

April 8, 2016

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2016

MIT ranked within the top 5 globally for 19 of 42 subject areas.

April 8, 2016

Researchers have created a new type of dual-sided pill that attaches to the gastrointestinal tract. One side of the pill sticks to mucosal surfaces, while the other is omniphobic, meaning that it repels everything it encounters.

Engineers develop a pill for long-term drug release

New tablet attaches to the lining of the GI tract, resists being pulled away.

April 6, 2016

April 12 symposium: Take an immersive, intellectual journey across campus

Beyond 2016: MIT’s Frontiers of the Future event offers a playful introduction to research at MIT.

April 5, 2016

This device built by MIT researchers can be reconfigured to manufacture several different types of pharmaceuticals.

Pharmacy on demand

New, portable system can be configured to produce different drugs.

March 31, 2016

A scanning electron micrograph of a nanocrystal superlattice shows long-range ordering over large domains.

Nanocrystal self-assembly sheds its secrets

A new approach gives a real-time look at how the complex structures form.

March 21, 2016

In this time-lapse series of photos, progressing from top to bottom, a coating of sucrose (ordinary sugar) over a wire made of carbon nanotubes is lit at the left end, and burns from one end to the other. As it heats the wire, it drives a wave of electrons along with it, thus converting the heat into electricity.

MIT develops nontoxic way of generating portable power

Battery substitutes produce current by burning fuel-coated carbon nanotubes like a fuse.

March 14, 2016

Left: Lipid nanoparticles (carrying siRNA) are shown as they are transported inside cells using endocytic vesicles. Right: Gehrke's lab is developing a diagnostic for Dengue virus, a relative to Zika. The device shown, which tested for Ebola, has silver nanoparticles of different colors that indicate different diseases. On the left is the unused device, opened to reveal the contents inside. On the...

Confronting Zika

MIT's Institute of Medical Engineering and Science is on the front lines of efforts to diagnose and develop a vaccine against the emerging Zika virus.

February 23, 2016

MIT's Killian Court, with Great Dome in the background

Eleven MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships

Faculty from eight MIT science and engineering departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.

February 23, 2016

MIT faculty recipients of the 2016 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers are: (clockwise from top left) Kay Tye, Cullen Buie, Tonio Buonassisi, and William Tisdale.

Four MIT faculty win Presidential Early Career Awards

Buie, Buonassisi, Tisdale, and Tye honored with the U.S. government's highest award for young scientists and engineers.

February 19, 2016

bioLogic Second Skin from the MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media Group

A living, breathing textile aims to enhance athletic performance

Researchers in the Media Lab's bioLogic group have created a new form of performance fabric that combines biomaterials research with textile design.

February 16, 2016

Using a new protein labeling technique based on squeezing cells, researchers labeled the nuclear envelope protein LaminA with green probes and histone 2B with magenta. Using traditional protein labeling, they also stained microtubules red and a lysosomal protein blue.

Cell squeezing enhances protein imaging

Compressing cells allows delivery of new fluorescent tags to track proteins in living cells.

February 1, 2016

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