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Chemists boost boron’s utility
Boron, a metalloid element that sits next to carbon in the periodic table, has many traits that make…
MIT Solve announces 2021 global challenges
On March 1, MIT Solve launched its 2021 Global Challenges, with over $1.5 million in prize funding available…
MIT team improving gene therapies wins Sloan health care prize
The MIT team Kano Therapeutics won the 2021 Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize Thursday with its novel approach for…
Healing with hydrogels
In November, mechanical engineering PhD candidate Hyunwoo Yuk earned the top prize at the Collegiate Inventors Competition hosted…
Basic cell health systems wear down in Huntington’s disease, analysis shows
Using an innovative computational approach to analyze vast brain cell gene expression datasets, researchers at MIT and Sorbonne…
Q&A: Clare Balboni on environmental economics
In an ongoing series, Solving Climate: Humanistic Perspectives from MIT, faculty, students, and alumni in the Institute’s humanistic…
Improving sanitation for the world’s most vulnerable people
Last year, women visiting a neonatal clinic at a hospital in Kiboga, Uganda, began using two waterless, standalone…
Study: Covid-19 communications featuring racially diverse physicians can improve health outcomes for communities of color
In a new study by MIT professors Esther Duflo, Ben Olken, and Abhijit Banerjee, and physicians Marcella Alsan…
Metabolic mutations help bacteria resist drug treatment
Bacteria have many ways to evade the antibiotics that we use against them. Each year, at least 2.8…
Toward a disease-sniffing device that rivals a dog’s nose
Numerous studies have shown that trained dogs can detect many kinds of disease — including lung, breast, ovarian,…
