Sensors and sensing systems — from devices that depend white blood cells to technologies that watch muscle mass coordination during rehabilitation — can positively influence medical analysis, researchers explained at the 2021 Sense.nano Symposium. The digital occasion targeted on how sensing technologies are enabling recent clinical experiments and aiding translation […]
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Immune system-stimulating nanoparticle could lead to more powerful vaccines | MIT News
A widespread system to make vaccines much more effective is to provide them together with an adjuvant — a compound that stimulates the immune program to deliver a stronger response. Researchers from MIT, the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, and other institutions have now created a new nanoparticle adjuvant that […]
Six MIT students named 2023 Schwarzman Scholars | MIT News
5 MIT seniors — Sihao Huang, William Kuhl, Giramnah Peña-Alcántara, Sreya Vangara, and Kelly Wu — and graduate student Tingyu Li have been awarded 2022-23 Schwarzman Scholarships. They will head to Tsinghua University in Beijing upcoming August to pursue a a single-12 months master’s degree in worldwide affairs. The students […]
NASA selects three MIT alumni for astronaut training | MIT News
On Monday, MIT confirmed once again its status as a common launchpad for upcoming astronauts. NASA announced that 3 MIT alumni are between its 10-member astronaut prospect class of 2021. Marcos Berríos ’06, who graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering Christina Birch PhD ’15, who attained a doctorate from […]
MIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech | MIT News
In a fitting sequel to its entrepreneurship “boot camp” educational lecture series last fall, the MIT Future Founders Initiative has announced the MIT Future Founders Prize Competition, supported by Northpond Ventures, and named the MIT faculty cohort that will participate in this year’s competition. The Future Founders Initiative was established […]
Peeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales | MIT News
If you brush against the wings of a butterfly, you will likely come away with a fine sprinkling of powder. This lepidopteran dust is made up of tiny microscopic scales, hundreds of thousands of which paper a butterfly’s wings like shingles on a wafer-thin roof. The structure and arrangement of […]
Investigating pathogens and their life cycles, for the benefit of society | MIT News
Desmond Edwards was a little kid when first learned about typhoid fever. Fortunately, he didn’t have the disease. He was looking at a cartoon public health announcement. The cartoon, produced by the Pan American Health Organization, was designed to educate people in his home country of Jamaica about the importance […]
Engineers devise a way to selectively turn on RNA therapies in human cells | MIT News
Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have designed a way to selectively turn on gene therapies in target cells, including human cells. Their technology can detect specific messenger RNA sequences in cells, and that detection then triggers production of a specific protein from a transgene, or artificial gene. Because transgenes […]
Exploring the human stories behind the data | MIT News
Shaking in the back of a police cruiser, handcuffs digging into his wrists, Brian Williams was overwhelmed with fear. He had been pulled over, but before he was asked for his name, license, or registration, a police officer ordered him out of his car and into back of the police […]
Diagnosing cancer with a barcode-inspired test | MIT News
As Dana Al-Sulaiman peers into a microscope, a row of dots appears on a slide. These dots can help provide a cancer diagnosis. Al-Sulaiman was inspired by barcodes found on consumer products. “I got the idea from my PhD supervisor, who said, ‘in the future you’ll be able to scan […]
Hunting a “Jekyll-and-Hyde” molecule | MIT News
MIT chemical engineers have developed a way of swiftly screening compounds to determine their therapeutic potential for certain kinds of cancers. With a genetically engineered sensor and high-throughput technology, their method probes for changes in cellular concentrations of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), a specialized molecule known as an oxidant. “The regulatory […]