Four MIT faculty named 2015 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Belcher, Bhatia, Brown, and Horvitz recognized for demonstrating a prolific spirit of innovation and invention resulting in a tangible impact on society.
Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
Scientists discover how cancer cells escape blood vessels
Study offers new targets for drugs that may prevent cancer from spreading.
Taking many forms of expertise to heart
Elazer Edelman’s multidisciplinary teams bring innovation to cardiovascular health worldwide.
A new way to deliver microRNAs for cancer treatment
Scientists exploit gene therapy to shrink tumors in mice with an aggressive form of breast cancer.
Turbocharging medical translation
Jeff Karp’s diverse multidisciplinary team brings novel solutions to a wide array of health challenges.
How do you hack health care?
With MIT Hacking Medicine, brilliant minds converge at MIT to contribute to design thinking for health care.
Improving prevention of and responses to flu outbreaks
New research suggests ways to reduce the likelihood that individuals and groups will become infected with influenza.
Dava Newman confirmed as NASA deputy administrator
MIT aerospace and systems engineer will assume agency’s No. 2 post upon President Obama's signing.
Five from MIT win 2015 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Recipients, all immigrants or children of immigrants, win $90,000 apiece to support graduate studies.
Study links brain anatomy, academic achievement, and family income
In middle-schoolers, neuroscientists find differences in brain structures where knowledge is stored.
New nanodevice defeats drug resistance
Tiny particles embedded in gel can turn off drug-resistance genes, then release cancer drugs.
New strategies for anesthesia
Emery Brown says anesthesia drugs have been used in the U.S. for more than 160 years, but were largely misunderstood — until now.