Enabling AI-driven health advances without sacrificing patient privacy
Secure AI Labs, founded by alumna Anne Kim and MIT Professor Manolis Kellis, anonymizes data for AI researchers.
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Seven from MIT receive National Institutes of Health awards for 2021
Awards support high-risk, high-reward biomedical and behavioral research.
3 Questions: Sheena Vasquez and Christian Loyo on communicating science through poetry
PhD students discuss their participation in The Poetry of Science project and the importance of bringing the arts into science communication.
Weighing cancer cells to personalize drug choices
A new study shows a link between patient survival and changes in tumor cell mass after glioblastoma treatment.
School of Engineering third quarter 2021 awards
Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes.
David Julius ’77 shares the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
MIT alumnus and one other honored for their discoveries of how the nervous system senses temperature and touch.
MIT brings Campaign for a Better World to a successful finish
The effort raised more than $6 billion to spark innovation on global challenges.
Zeroing in on the origins of Earth’s “single most important evolutionary innovation”
A new study shows oxygenic photosynthesis likely evolved between 3.4 and 2.9 billion years ago.
Taylor Perron receives 2021 MacArthur Fellowship
In his research, the geomorphologist seeks connections among landscape evolution, biodiversity, and human history.
Counting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads
MIT engineers devised a way to count elusive circulating tumor cells in mice, allowing them to study the dynamics of metastasis.
Lindsey Backman: Biochemist, mentor, and advocate
The PhD candidate studies the human microbiome and its proteins, while also championing the Latinx community on MIT’s campus.
Deep learning helps predict new drug combinations to fight Covid-19
Neural network identifies synergistic drug blends for treating viruses like SARS-CoV-2.
New bionics center established at MIT with $24 million gift
Interdisciplinary research center funded by philanthropist Lisa Yang aims to mitigate disability through technologies that marry human physiology with electromechanics.
Making health and motion sensing devices more personal
An electrical impedance tomography toolkit lets users design and fabricate health and motion sensing devices.
Institute Professor Paula Hammond named to White House science council
The head of MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering will serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.