Media Outlet:
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"HERE IS A LIST OF BREAKTHROUGHS that recently emerged from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: (1) a sponge coated with a natural anticoagulant that almost instantly stops bleeding, (2) a super-thin battery that discharges power — lots of it — at blinding speed, and (3) a way of packing RNA segments into tiny but hardy spheres that can find their way to diseased cells and silence genes that have gone awry."