Alana Foundation gift to support study of Down syndrome
MIT’s Picower Institute to partner on four projects with Case Western Reserve University.
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Discovery science is reinventing the world
How discovery science is reinventing the world
MIT innovators take a close look at how basic science research leads to applications, new companies, jobs, and economic growth.
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.
“IDEAS” for social change
Contest winners are bringing novel technologies, new educational models to the developing world.
Shalek receives Searle Scholars Award
Award to Professor Alex Shalek will support new advances in nanotechnology and chemical biology.
Recruiting the entire immune system to attack cancer
Stimulating both major branches of the immune system halts tumor growth more effectively.
Environmental Solutions Initiative awards seed grants to advance collaborative progress on environmental challenges
Grants of up to $200,000 will fund environmental partnerships over the next two years.
Biologists identify brain tumor weakness
Discovery could offer a new target for treatment of glioblastoma.
Taking action in Africa
Conference spotlights companies and organizations that are innovating across various sectors.
From the heart
Laurie Boyer’s studies of stem cell differentiation could improve treatments for heart disease.
New evidence for how a rare form of liver cancer arises
MIT team finds mechanism by which exposure to vinyl chloride may produce cancerous mutations.
Cerebral curiosity
Graduate student Steven Keating takes a problem-solving approach to his brain cancer.
Collaboration 101
MacVicar Day examines MIT’s unique partnership with Singapore University of Technology and Design.