MIT researchers built DiffDock, a diffusion generative model that could potentially find new drugs faster than traditional methods and reduce the potential for adverse side effects.

Nature - OpenAlex catalogues hundreds of millions of scientific documents and charts connections between them.

An ingestible capsule that delivers an electrical current can stimulate the release of the hormone ghrelin. Developed at MIT, the capsule could prove useful for treating diseases that involve nausea...

Mitochondrial augmentation therapy could provide a way to treat not just rare genetic diseases, but other conditions and injuries arising from mitochondrial damage.

MIT's Assistant Professor Ritu Raman applies mechanical engineering to biology and living cells. Bioengineered muscle made in Raman’s lab has the potential to create robots that are more dynamically...

npj Digital Medicine - The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected life worldwide. Governments have been faced with the formidable task of implementing public health measures, such as social...

In less than two weeks, a group of 40 MIT students and alumni organizes a global virtual hackathon to address the challenges of Covid-19 in Africa.

Postdoc Freddy Nguyen, grad student Emre Ergecen, and Visiting Assistant Professor Charles Senteio describe collective actions to tackle health inequities and disparities, including through MIT...

U.S. News and World Report has ranked MIT’s graduate engineering program as No. 1 in the country for 2022. The MIT Sloan School of Management is ranked as the nation’s No. 5 business school.

BioAutoMATED is a new MIT system that can generate artificial intelligence models for biology research. The open-source, automated machine-learning platform aims to help democratize AI for research...

The company's product can reduce diabetic amputations.

1500 participants and 250 mentors from around the world came together from April 3 - 5 to help tackle some of the most pressing issues arising from the COVID...

The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

Disillusioned with conducting chemistry experiments in a basement, a new graduate student decides instead to dedicate her PhD to improving the culture of her research environment.

Sybil is a new artificial intelligence tool that can detect lung cancer up to six years in advance. MIT and Mass General Cancer Center researchers designed an AI tool, called

Find out how Robert Langer became a pioneering chemical engineer and winner of the Queen Elizabeth prize for engineering

The new K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center at MIT, funded by a $38 million gift to the McGovern Institute for Brain Research from philanthropist K. Lisa Yang, aims to unlock the mysteries of the gut-br...

MIT engineers designed a nanoparticle sensor that could enable early diagnosis of cancer with a simple urine test. The sensors, which can detect many cancerous proteins, could also be used to...

The MIT COVID-19 Challenge searches for ideas to fight the coronavirus via hackathons and virtual events.

The timing and dosage of DNA-damaging drugs determine whether cancer cells die or enter senescence, according to a study from the MIT Koch Institute lab of Michael Yaffe. The work suggests clinical...