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Arsenal Health developed a schedule-optimization service for health care providers that analyzes scheduling and other data to predict which patients might not show up to appointments. Health-care providers can then double-book over those potential no-show patients or prioritize their outreach as needed.

Reducing wait times at the doctor’s office

MIT spinout helps health-care providers schedule patients more efficiently.

July 21, 2016

MIT and Broad Institute postdoc Ilana Brito sampled not only the human microbiome in the remote villages in Fiji she studied, but also the reservoirs of microbes in the community.

Microbiome genes on the move

Largest metagenomic view of the developing world uncovers “mobile genes” that reveal how culture shapes the human microbiome.

July 14, 2016

Andrea Campbell, the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and head of the MIT Department of Political Science

How political science can help us solve global health care issues

MIT political scientist Andrea Campbell discusses the impact of equity on health care innovation and outcomes.

July 12, 2016

Jareth Holt, Susan Solomon, and Noelle Selin of the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences have developed new insights into how energy-related emissions form fine airborne particles that damage human health.

Regulating particulate pollution: Novel analysis yields new insights

MIT researchers demonstrate a new approach to designing location-specific emissions-control measures.

July 11, 2016

MIT announces Solve program activities

Addressing the world’s most pressing issues, second year of program will focus on in-person gatherings, solution proposals.

July 7, 2016

To use the Nima sensor, a new device that can detect gluten, diners put a pea-sized sample of food or liquid into a disposable capsule, and insert the capsule into the device, which mixes the food into a solution that detects gluten. In two to three minutes, a digital display appears on the sensor, indicating if the food sample does or doesn’t contain gluten.

Is your meal really gluten free?

Portable sensor detects trace amounts of gluten in food at restaurants.

July 6, 2016

A photo of three microfluidic devices filled with food color dyes. The device, about the size of a credit card, is designed to help scientists narrow in on safe ranges of electric fields that might be used to noninvasively treat breast, lung, and other forms of cancer.

New microfluidic device offers means for studying electric field cancer therapy

Low-intensity fields keep malignant cells from spreading, while preserving healthy cells.

July 5, 2016

“This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal with sudden outbreaks or make rapid modifications and improvements,” says Daniel Anderson, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineeri...

Engineers design programmable RNA vaccines

Tests in mice show the vaccines work against Ebola, influenza, and a common parasite.

July 4, 2016

A new report, “Convergence: The Future of Health,” draws on insights from scientists and researchers across academia, industry, and government. The cover of the report is an image of lungs, one of the major sites of metastasis. To help protect the lungs (blue) from this deadly process, bioengineers have created microscopic drug depots (red) to focus the effect of anti-cancer drugs that may hav...

A strategy for “convergence” research to transform biomedicine

Report calls for more integration of physical, life sciences for needed advances in biomedical research.

June 23, 2016

David Hagan, a Tata Fellow and MIT PhD candidate in civil and environmental engineering, is designing and building low-cost sensors that could be deployed in dense networks to monitor air pollution.

Air quality sensors track pollution

Research from MIT's Tata Center for Technology and Design is helping to quantify emissions in the world’s most polluted cities.

June 15, 2016

Gene circuits in live cells can perform complex computations

Technique combines analogue and digital processes in engineered cells.

June 3, 2016

Cara Lai, MIT Class of 2016, is double-majoring in literature and mechanical engineering.

Powered by literature on her way toward an MD

Senior Cara Lai cites MIT Literature studies as key to her preparation for medical practice.

June 1, 2016

Center for Environmental Health Sciences announces 2016 call for pilot project proposals

Proposals are invited for basic and translational environmental health sciences research.

May 19, 2016

MIT $100K grand-prize-winning team Astraeus Technologies (left to right): Graham Lieberman, Jay Kumar, Alexander Blair, and Joseph Azzarelli.

Lung cancer “breathalyzer” wins $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

Team’s smartphone-connected device can detect lung cancer early from a single breath.

May 12, 2016

Winning team IllumiRNA (shown here) pitched an idea for a diagnostic platform that profiles individual cells in blood tests.

Method for earlier detection of leukemia wins $300,000 grant

Team takes home grand prize from Koch Institute’s unique research-grant pitch competition.

April 11, 2016

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