New treatment could reverse hair loss caused by an autoimmune skin disease

Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School have developed a potential new…

Brain surgery training from an avatar

Benjamin Warf, a renowned neurosurgeon at Boston Children’s Hospital, stands in the MIT.nano Immersion Lab. More…

Turning history of science into a comic adventure

The Covid-19 pandemic taught us how complex the science and management of infectious disease can be,…

MIT’s tiny technologies go to Washington

On Nov. 7, a team from the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine at MIT showed a…

MIT Bootcamps enables aspiring innovators to find solutions that improve the patient experience

Since its launch on the heels of the Entrepreneurship 101 massive open online course, MIT Bootcamps…

Twelve with MIT ties elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2023

The National Academy of Medicine announced the election of 100 new members to join their esteemed…

Study finds a surprising new role for a major immune regulator

A signaling protein known as STING is a critical player in the human immune system, detecting…

Gamifying medical data labeling to advance AI

When Erik Duhaime PhD ’19 was working on his thesis in MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence,…

Aging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration

Neurodegenerative diseases are defined by an increasingly widespread and debilitating death of nervous system cells, but…

Engineered bacteria could help protect “good” gut microbes from antibiotics

Antibiotics are life-saving drugs, but they can also harm the beneficial microbes that live in the…