Your vital signs, on camera
MIT team develops system for continuous medical monitoring using widely available video technology.
Langer to receive National Academy of Engineering award
Institute Professor cited for inventions, development
Getting bacteria to do a plant’s job
Researchers engineer microbes for low-cost production of precursor of anticancer drug Taxol and other pharmaceuticals.
Stately Killian Court serves as testing ground for new geotech tool
Civil engineers develop new probe for determining soil characteristics.
MIT-Mount Sinai collaboration nets $16.4 million grant
Project aims to create nanotechnology solutions for heart, lung and blood diseases.
Subra Suresh to head National Science Foundation
MIT’s dean of engineering has been confirmed by the United States Senate to direct the largest supporter of non-medical basic-science research in the country.
5 from MIT win NIH awards
The grants are designed to promote risky, innovative research with the potential to transform a field of study.
Multicore may not be so scary
Research suggests that the free operating system Linux will keep up with the addition of more ‘cores,’ or processing units, to computer chips.
Better prepared next time
Lessons learned from the BP oil spill could help both companies and regulators to be more ready for the next emergency.
School of Engineering Dean Search Advisory Committee appointed
12-member group will be led by Professor Jeffrey Shapiro.
MIT-led team’s eco-aircraft receives Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Innovator Award
Unique plane offers significant reduction in emissions, noise and fuel use.
A link between air travel and deaths on the ground
Study suggests pollution from airplanes flying at ‘cruise’ altitudes contributes to 8,000 deaths per year globally.