Testing new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”
3-D tissue model replicates the motor neuron connections affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
3-D tissue model replicates the motor neuron connections affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Women’s health advocate, Top Chef host and executive producer, and MIT visiting scholar Padma Lakshmi tours campus, speaks on endometriosis.
Natural killer cells’ failure to respond to infection may explain why the disease is more grave in some patients.
A key part of the MIT Quest for Intelligence, J-Clinic builds on MIT expertise across multiple scientific disciplines.
Despite a single, unchanging food source in the form of a liquid meal replacement shake, bacteria in the gut are unpredictable, researchers find.
Unexpected findings show that the body’s own immune system destroys retinal cells.
New book by MIT Associate Professor Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga explores science in action in Africa.
Congress of leading thinkers in economic, business, and social history convenes in the US for first time in 50 years.
Whitehead team deploys CRISPR tools to better understand and uncover ways of improving methotrexate, a popular chemotherapy drug.
Researchers identify the amino acid aspartate as a metabolic limitation in certain cancers.
Probiotic bacteria can diagnose, prevent, and treat infections.
A new daughter helped Alejandra Falla PhD ’18 gain perspective on life — and her tiny MIT regalia stole the show at Commencement.
“Therepi” device attaches directly to damaged heart, enabling delivery of medicine from a port under a patient’s skin to augment cardiac function.
Biophysicist will investigate the biology of RNA aggregation.
Tata Center for Technology and Design program "aims to close the gap between ideas and implementation," says program director Jason Prapas.