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Five MIT School of Science professors receive tenure for 2021
MIT has granted tenure to five faculty members in the MIT School of Science in the departments of…
The environmental toll of disposable masks
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began last year, face masks and other personal protective equipment have become essential for…
Enhancing drug delivery with ultrasound
It can be difficult to get drugs to disease sites along the gastrointestinal tract, which spans the mouth,…
A noninvasive test to detect cancer cells and pinpoint their location
Most of the tests that doctors use to diagnose cancer — such as mammography, colonoscopy, and CT scans…
Study finds physicians are widely effective messengers of Covid-19 information
A new large-scale randomized evaluation has found that messages delivered by physicians increased knowledge about Covid-19 and use of…
The tenured engineers of 2021
The School of Engineering has announced that MIT has granted tenure to eight members of its faculty in…
SMART researchers develop a method for rapid, accurate virus detection
Researchers from Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP), an interdisciplinary research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research…
3 Questions: Anna Jagielska on printing artificial axons
Tens of millions of people worldwide suffer from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and Lou…
New face mask prototype can detect Covid-19 infection
Engineers at MIT and Harvard University have designed a novel face mask that can diagnose the wearer with…
Deploying no-contact vitals-sensing kiosks across campus
When MIT announced plans to welcome back some undergraduates, ramp up research operations, and increase the number of…
