Launching a vital link in the Ebola-response effort
With help from MIT Humanitarian Response Lab, a cargo flight carries much-needed supplies to support health systems and Ebola-response operations in Liberia.
With help from MIT Humanitarian Response Lab, a cargo flight carries much-needed supplies to support health systems and Ebola-response operations in Liberia.
Simple device now in development could speed diagnosis and improve disease tracking.
Senior Christina Lalani applies lessons she learned from karate to global health disparities.
Using magnetic fields, technique can detect parasite’s waste products in infected blood cells.
New technique sustains virus in liver cells, allowing study of immune response and drug treatments.
Research shows the success of a bacterial community depends on its shape.
Five-year grant will support research on cancer therapy, artificial tissue homeostasis, and infectious diseases.
New microfluidic technique quickly distinguishes bacteria within the same strain; could improve monitoring of cystic fibrosis and other diseases.
Mice with human immune cells help researchers discover how the mosquito-borne virus depletes blood platelets.
MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science brings many tools to the quest for new disease treatments and diagnostic devices.
Stephanie Seneff is using the novel natural language processing techniques she developed to better understand how drugs and environmental toxins impact human health.
MIT study combines new model of malaria transmission with global forecasts for temperature and rainfall.
New study finds link between neurons’ inability to repair DNA and neurodegeneration.
New prototype device recognizes electrical properties of infected cells as signatures of disease.