Launchpad for health care entrepreneurs

When computation and systems biology PhD student Elvira Kinzina was diagnosed with Lyme disease during her…

Global demand for African developers is on the rise

Four out of every ten African software developers now work for at least one company based…

What the latest European covid-19 data suggests for the rest of the world

Europe might be seeing the end of the covid-19 emergency. A statement released yesterday by the…

Life Sciences Supermind Report outlines proposed solutions to re-imagine the global health ecosystem

The Covid-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through the life science ecosystem, uniting the scientific community with a…

Illuminating the history and global story of antibiotics

When Rijul Kochhar arrived at MIT to begin his PhD studies, he was already certain about…

Omicron shows the danger of treating coronavirus like an emergency

Almost 21 months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared covid-19 a pandemic, the world is once…

How the Modi government wrecked India’s small businesses

The last five years appear to us as a series of 100-meter sprints for India’s small…

In MIT visit, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston ’05 explores the accelerated shift to distributed work

When the cloud storage firm Dropbox decided to shut down its offices with the outbreak of…

New 10-minute test detects Covid-19 immunity

Researchers have successfully developed a rapid point-of-care test for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies (NAbs).…

Carbon nanotube-based sensor can detect SARS-CoV-2 proteins

Using specialized carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have designed a novel sensor that can detect SARS-CoV-2 without…