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A better world, starting close to home
MIT faculty and alumni have helped to shape Cambridge, Boston, and the surrounding region.
Lauren Uhr: a brain researcher motivated by personal experience
MIT senior studies cognitive science and medicine from the vantage point of a person with dyslexia.
Study suggests approach to waking patients after surgery
Activating certain brain neurons may spur recovery from general anesthesia.
Needles that hit the right mark
New sensor could help anesthesiologists place needles for epidurals and other medical procedures.
Sepsis-curing device wins new health care prize
Device that filters blood to prevent organ failure wins MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize.
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.
Uncovering the mechanism of our oldest anesthetic
MIT researchers reveal brainwave changes in patients receiving nitrous oxide, or “laughing gas.”
Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship celebrates 50 years
New cohort of fellows to carry on humanitarian tradition at MIT.
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.
Eight from MIT elected to National Academy of Engineering
New members include the Institute’s president and the director of Lincoln Laboratory.
Big step in battling bladder disease
Novel device that stays in the bladder and slowly releases drugs sells to pharmaceutical giant.
Four professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Acemoglu, Brown, Grossman, and Grove bring to 77 the number of MIT faculty who are NAS members.
A new way to monitor induced comas
Automated system could offer better control of patients’ brain states.