Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology

Making health care more personal

The company Health at Scale uses machine learning to improve outcomes for individual patients.

September 1, 2020

Time-lapse microscopic images of particle-based flow visualization inside a ventricular catheter. The image shows the confluence of three flows: the upstream flow coming from the catheter tip direction and two flows coming in via holes facing each other. Obtained from combined fluorescent microscopy videography and optical distortion correction via fluid index matching.

New design principle could prevent catheter failure in brain shunts

MIT researchers propose a design to overcome a major challenge in hydrocephalus catheters — clogging — by leveraging catheter geometry.

July 30, 2020

MIT engineers have designed nanoparticle sensors that can diagnose lung diseases. If a disease-associated protein is present in the lungs, the protein cleaves a gaseous molecule from the nanoparticle, and this gas can be detected in the patient’s breath.

Exhaled biomarkers can reveal lung disease

Specialized nanoparticles create a “breath signal” that could be used to diagnose pneumonia and other infectious or genetic diseases.

July 20, 2020

MIT’s 2020 Hertz Fellows are (clockwise from top left): Alexander Alabugin, Alyssa Dayan, Marisa Gaetz, Isaac Metcalf, Nolan Peard, Maya Sankar, and Constantine Tzouanas.

Seven from MIT win 2020 Hertz Fellowships

Award recognizes scholars who pursue graduate studies focusing on “bold, risk-taking research.”

June 11, 2020

MIT researchers demonstrated a method to manufacture carbon nanotube transistors in commercial facilities that fabricate silicon-based transistors. This photograph shows Anthony Ratkovich, left, and Mindy D. Bishop, who is holding an example of a silicon wafer.

Carbon nanotube transistors make the leap from lab to factory floor

Technique paves the way for more energy efficient, 3D microprocessors.

June 1, 2020

Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have come up with a new approach to sharing ventilators between patients, which they believe could be used as a last resort to treat Covid-19 patients in acute respiratory distress.

MIT engineers propose a safer method for sharing ventilators

Suggested design could make it easier to divide air flow for Covid-19 patients in emergencies when no other options are available.

May 18, 2020

Abhijit Banerjee, Bonnie Berger, and Roger Summons (left to right) are new members of the National Academy of Sciences.

Three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2020

Faculty members Abhijit Banerjee, Bonnie Berger, and Roger Summons elected by peers for outstanding contributions to research.

May 1, 2020

Shriya Srinivasan of MIT is the $15,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize “Cure it!” Graduate Winner for her Cutaneous Mechanoneural Interface (CMI), a new type of surgical process for amputee patients that would allow a person to sense what their prosthesis feels.

Top collegiate inventors awarded 2020 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Students around the country recognized for innovative solutions to better single-use plastic, spacecraft and aircraft fuel gauges, surgery techniques, and more.

April 29, 2020

Mathai Mammen, head of R&D at the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, was the keynote speaker at the Jameel Clinic's AI Powered Drug Discovery and Manufacturing Conference in February.

MIT conference reveals the power of using artificial intelligence to discover new drugs

Inaugural AI Powered Drug Discovery and Manufacturing Conference drew pharmaceutical companies, government regulators, and pioneering drug researchers.

April 27, 2020