In the Media

"'This disease [cancer] is much more complex than we have been treating it,' says MIT’s Phillip Sharp. 'And the complexity is stunning.'"

"Cancer geneticist Matthew Meyerson, who is at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, tracks the many ways tumors wreak chaos in orderly cells. He wants to squeeze into his schedule a dedicated time period in Gad Getz's lab at the Broad Institute to hone his computational skills for analyzing data about cancer genomes."

"In a report published this week, a team including researchers from MIT and Harvard revealed that anonymized cellphone location data demonstrate patterns of behavior that could be used to identify a person."

“'I am like the first person in my city to get into MIT ever so I have become sort of pretty famous,' he said. 'I was so motivated by how we were taught [by edX] that I decided that maybe I belong to MIT after all.'”

"When Turkle left the show in L.A., 'the response to him [Aziz Ansari] was that he was on to something really true. . . . I think he’s capturing the kind of paradoxes and difficulties of modern love and modern life.'”

"Sea worms, jellyfish, geckos and spiders may seem unlikely muses to cutting-edge technology. But these creatures are helping stimulate medical innovations — including new adhesives, diagnostic tests and needles — that are slowly migrating from the lab to the clinic."

"On the fifth floor of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, David Mellis has just plugged in the mobile phone I spent all afternoon soldering together. That's right: I just built a cellphone. By hand."

"On the fifth floor of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, David Mellis has just plugged in the mobile phone I spent all afternoon soldering together. That's right: I just built a cellphone. By hand."

"...Machover developed the 'hyperinstrument', which he defines as 'an instrument that knows how it is being played – and can sound like anything'."

"'What attracts a lot of people to cheesemaking,' says Paxson recently in her office, 'is that it’s magical: the transubstantiation of fluid milk to solid food. A lot of people [I interviewed] described cheese’s liveliness and used developmental metaphors like "hitting puberty" and "maturity." They anthropomorphize the cheese.'”

"MIT researchers say they have found a way for the cloud to handle databases 20 times more efficiently."

"The coverage of 3D printing is a bit like the coverage of microwave ovens in the 50s. Microwaves are useful for some things, but they didn't replace the rest of your kitchen"

"A comet visible in the night sky with a pair of binoculars for much of this month was discovered using technology developed at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington."

"...a study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mass. General, and Boston University, has taken a systematic approach to understand the changes in brain activity that occur as a patient goes under with an anesthesia drug."

"One key purpose of the new fund, Ito explained to me recently, will be to encourage students to finish their degrees before they start companies."