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Single-celled fungi multiply, alien-like, by fusing cells in host
Caenorhabditis elegans. Credit: WikipediaMicrosporidia cause diarrhea, an illness called microsporidiosis and even death in immune-compromised individuals. In spite of those...
Organ-on-a-chip
A new technique for programming human stem cells to produce different types of tissue on demand may ultimately allow personalized...
Solar energy from discarded car batteries
MIT researchers have developed a simple procedure for making a promising type of solar cell using lead recovered from discarded...
Four MIT faculty named 2015 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Four MIT faculty members have been named 2015 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI): Angela M. Belcher is...
Majority of parents support HPV vaccination requirements for school, but with opt-outs
CHAPEL HILL-Requiring students to get vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, to enter school could prevent many cancers linked...
Revolutionary method to map brains at single-neuron resolution successfully demonstrated
Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Neuroscientists today publish in Neuron details of a revolutionary new way of mapping the brain...
Study shows swimming is an effective part of the treatment for fibromyalgia
A study performed by researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) shows swimming is as effective as walking...
Methamphetamine and skin wounds: NYIT researcher wins NIH grant to study immune response
A chance observation in a Southern California fast food restaurant led Luis Martinez, Ph.D., to wonder about the connections behind...
Flesh-eating infections in rheumatoid arthritis patients spur new discovery
Rheumatoid arthritis patients taking medications that inhibit interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), a molecule that stimulates the immune system, are 300 times more...
Increased eye cancer risk linked to pigmentation genes that dictate eye color
Credits: Wikimedia.orgCOLUMBUS, Ohio – New research links specific inherited genetic differences (alterations) to an increased risk for eye (uveal) melanoma,...
MRI technology quantifies liver response in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis patients
Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found that a form of magnetic resonance imaging...
April 12 symposium: Take an immersive, intellectual journey across campus
When MIT moved from Boston to Cambridge in 1916, it built a new campus designed to foster collaboration across disparate...
Camilo Ruiz named 2016 Gates Cambridge Scholar
Camilo Ruiz, an MIT senior majoring in biological engineering, is one of 35 American students to be awarded this year’s...
Reprogramming gut bacteria as “living therapeutics”
An MIT spinout, Synlogic, is aiming to create a new class of medicines, by re-programming bacteria found in the gut...
Feng Zhang receives 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award
Feng Zhang, a core institute member of the Broad Institute, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at...
Toward a better understanding of the brain
In 2011, about a month after joining the MIT faculty, Feng Zhang attended a talk by Harvard Medical School Professor...
Refining optogenetic methods to map synaptic connections in the brain
A fundamental question in neuroscience is how neuronal networks and circuits give rise to brain function, as disruptions in these...
An ace on the court and in the lab
MIT senior Ava Soleimany knows the value of determination in the lab, and on the tennis court. The major in...
Biobarrier explorer and dark matter theorist win MIT’s prestigious junior faculty award
Jesse Thaler, associate professor in the Department of Physics, and Katharina Ribbeck, the Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of Tissue...
James Collins appointed 2016 Allen Distinguished Investigator
James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science at the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, professor...
