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Nov 15, 2023
MIT professors Gene-Wei Li and Michael Birnbaum are among the 12 researchers named 2023 Innovation Fund investigators by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Oct 10, 2023
Five MIT faculty, along with seven additional affiliates, are honored for outstanding contributions to medical research.
Sep 29, 2023
MIT spinout Kronos Bio, founded by Associate Professor Angela Koehler, studies the complex signaling networks of cancer cells to find new drug targets.
Aug 11, 2023
MIT engineers developed a new way to create these arrays, by scaffolding quantum rods onto patterned DNA.
Aug 3, 2023
In addition to turning on genes involved in cell defense, the STING protein also acts as an ion channel, allowing it to control a wide variety of immune responses.
Jul 6, 2023
BioAutoMATED, an open-source, automated machine-learning platform, aims to help democratize artificial intelligence for research labs.
Jul 5, 2023
The new strategy may enable engineered T cells to eradicate solid tumors such as glioblastoma.
Jun 26, 2023
Synthetic biology expert to succeed Angela Belcher as department head effective Aug. 1.
Jun 26, 2023
C16 Biosciences, founded by MIT alumni, has developed a microbial oil to replace palm oil, whose production reaps environmental devastation.
May 26, 2023
The machine-learning algorithm identified a compound that kills Acinetobacter baumannii, a bacterium that lurks in many hospital settings.