MIT team improving gene therapies wins Sloan health care prize
Kano Therapeutics was one of eight finalists to pitch at the virtual competition.
Kano Therapeutics was one of eight finalists to pitch at the virtual competition.
Inspired by personal tragedy, graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk used his background in soft materials to develop a bioadhesive tape for repairing damaged tissue.
Improved public health messaging to Black, Latinx, and other communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic can increase Covid-19 knowledge and information-seeking.
Trained dogs can detect cancer and other diseases by smell. A miniaturized detector can analyze trace molecules to mimic the process.
Suzanne Blake of MIT Emergency Management analyzes the results from the program, which administered more than 250,000 tests last semester.
MIT economist works to show how therapies can be allocated fairly; states are now applying the method in their efforts.
Biological sensors developed by MIT spinout Glympse Bio could help clinicians make decisions for individual patients.
The patch, which can be folded around surgical tools, may someday be used in robotic surgery to repair tissues and organs.
Researchers created a risk-assessment algorithm that shows consistent performance across datasets from US, Europe, and Asia.
Guillermo Toral PhD '20 finds health care quality drops in months leading up to mayoral elections, and if the incumbent loses, the quality continues to fall.
Mechanical engineering students Ivan Goryachev and Ryan Koeppen ’19 are developing a thermal trailer and subsequent kiosks that could be deployed on campus during the Covid-19 pandemic.
MIT mechanical engineers have developed technologies to help hospitals around the world provide life-saving oxygen to patients with Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
Study: Healthier women are more likely to follow age-based guidelines, leaving room for better-targeted testing.
The discovery can help to cure bacterial infections without inducing resistance or causing harm to good bacteria.
Jasmine Florentine ’11, SM ’15 combines engineering and art to illustrate educational posters related to Covid-19.