Research

MIT neuroscientists have performed a comprehensive study of the APOE4 gene, which increases risk for Alzheimer’s disease, and the more common form of the gene, APOE3.

Neuroscientists discover roles of gene linked to Alzheimer’s

Study reveals why people with the APOE4 gene have higher risk of the disease.

May 31, 2018

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have designed a device that helps cheap flash storage process massive graphs on a personal computer. The device (pictured here) consists of a flash chip array (eight black chips) and computation “accelerator" (square piece directly to the left of the array). A novel algorithm sorts all access requests for gr...

Device allows a personal computer to process huge graphs

With novel system, data scientists can analyze massive networks without the need for power-hungry servers.

May 31, 2018

When PhD student Tiziana Smith isn’t at her computer refining or running her models, she can be found organizing activities and initiatives to help her fellow graduate students find mentors and become leaders themselves.

How many people can China feed?

Graduate student Tiziana Smith studies links between water availability and crop yields in the world’s most populous country.

May 30, 2018

Two agonist-antagonist myoneural interface devices (AMIs) were surgically created in the patient’s residual limb: One was electrically linked to the robotic ankle joint, and the other to the robotic subtalar joint.

Surgical technique improves sensation, control of prosthetic limb

New study describes first human implementation of novel approach to limb amputation.

May 30, 2018

A system developed at MIT aims to teach artificial agents a range of chores, including setting the table and making coffee.

Teaching chores to an artificial agent

Activity simulator could eventually teach robots tasks like making coffee or setting the table.

May 30, 2018

MIT Joint Program Senior Research Scientist Chien Wang's work seeks to advance knowledge about the critical, yet still poorly understood, issue of how aerosol-cloud interactions impact the climate.

Chien Wang selected to join French climate research initiative

MIT senior research scientist is one of six U.S. scientists to join French President Emmanuel Macron's "Make Our Planet Great Again" program.

May 29, 2018

Engineers at MIT have developed pressure-sensing photonic fibers that they have woven into a typical compression bandage

Engineers design color-changing compression bandage

Bandage is threaded with photonic fibers that change color to signal pressure level.

May 29, 2018

The T.5 Capacity in Medical Devices Program is co-led by Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) Director Elazer R. Edelman.

MIT-Tufts collaboration aims to advance translational research

Collaboration will focus on the early yet critical stage of translational science, when a medical device or diagnostic tool is still in its prototype stage.

May 29, 2018

MIT physicists have now found a way to significantly boost thermoelectricity’s potential by using metal, heat, and magnetic fields to produce energy.

Turning up the heat on thermoelectrics

New materials, heated under high magnetic fields, could produce record levels of energy, model shows.

May 25, 2018

Seven new projects focusing on solutions to water and food systems challenges, led by 11 faculty principal investigators across five MIT departments, will be funded by the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) with two-year grants of up to $200,000.

J-WAFS awards over $1.3 million in fourth round of seed grant funding

Eleven principal investigators from six MIT departments will receive grants totaling over $1.3 million, overhead free, for research on food and water challenges.

May 25, 2018