Engineers design programmable RNA vaccines
Tests in mice show the vaccines work against Ebola, influenza, and a common parasite.
Tests in mice show the vaccines work against Ebola, influenza, and a common parasite.
Report calls for more integration of physical, life sciences for needed advances in biomedical research.
Technique combines analogue and digital processes in engineered cells.
Team’s smartphone-connected device can detect lung cancer early from a single breath.
Study identifies new gene variants that may be targets for treating arrhythmia.
Team takes home grand prize from Koch Institute’s unique research-grant pitch competition.
In unprecedented detail, lifespan gap shown to be large and growing rapidly.
In step toward personalized medicine, researchers are using single-cell analysis to unravel cancer’s secrets.
Daily doses of synthetic biotics developed by startup Synologic may sense, treat metabolic diseases.
Device that filters blood to prevent organ failure wins MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize.
MIT's Institute of Medical Engineering and Science is on the front lines of efforts to diagnose and develop a vaccine against the emerging Zika virus.
Environmental management approaches may be key in combating mosquito-borne infectious diseases.
High-speed imaging shows how fluid breaks apart in air, may help identify super-spreaders.