Three MIT-incubated ventures chosen for first Techstars Impact class
Base Operations, MDaaS Global, and Graviky Labs will head to Texas to be part of the first class at the new elite accelerator.
Automating molecule design to speed up drug development
Machine-learning model could help chemists make molecules with higher potencies, much more quickly.
![“What we discovered is, very little [Medicare] money is spent on people who we know with high probability are going to die in a short amount of time,” says Amy Finkelstein, a professor in MIT’s Department of Economics and co-author of a paper in the journal Science.](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201806/MIT-Health-Care-Spending.jpg?itok=uM3yQvcx)
The value of late-in-life health care spending
Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care.
Faster analysis of medical images
Algorithm makes the process of comparing 3-D scans up to 1,000 times faster.
Artificial intelligence senses people through walls
Wireless smart-home system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could monitor diseases and help the elderly “age in place.”
An unexpected ambition borne from MIT experience
Annamarie Bair, a premed student turned computer science major, is drawn to the promise of artificial intelligence and health care.
MIT linQ welcomes IDEA² Global teams for 2018
Seven-month program includes 14 international groups, who are convening at the Institute to develop new biomedical technologies.
Surgical technique improves sensation, control of prosthetic limb
New study describes first human implementation of novel approach to limb amputation.
Engineers design color-changing compression bandage
Bandage is threaded with photonic fibers that change color to signal pressure level.
Removing health care barriers and boundaries
Through transformative use of telemedicine, researcher and instructor Amar Gupta hopes to achieve better, quicker, and less expensive health care for all.
Applying machine learning to challenges in the pharmaceutical industry
MIT researchers and industry form new consortium to aid the drug discovery process.
Plug-and-play diagnostic devices
Modular blocks could enable labs around the world to cheaply and easily build their own diagnostics.
Using data science to improve public policy
MIT Policy Hackathon, run by students within MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, seeks interdisciplinary solutions to societal challenges.
Pioneering digital collaborations
MIT hosts a summit on transformative artificial intelligence technologies in biomedical sciences and health care.