Painting a fuller picture of how antibiotics kill

Machine learning reveals metabolic pathways disrupted by the drugs, offering new targets to combat resistance.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
May 9, 2019 ~7 min

Tissue chip headed to International Space Station for osteoarthritis study

Successfully launched project aims to understand why some injuries result in develop post-traumatic osteoarthritis while others heal and recover.

Daniel J. Darling | Department of Biological Engineering • mit
May 7, 2019 ~4 min


Merging cell datasets, panorama style

Algorithm stitches multiple datasets into a single “panorama,” which could provide new insights for medical and biological studies.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
May 6, 2019 ~8 min

New approach could accelerate efforts to catalogue vast numbers of cells

Data-sampling method makes “sketches” of unwieldy biological datasets while still capturing the full diversity of cell types.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
May 2, 2019 ~7 min

Advocating for federal research funding on Capitol Hill

Students and postdocs from MIT's Science Policy Initiative meet with lawmakers on Science-Engineering-Technology Congressional Visits Day 2019.

Science Policy Initiative • mit
April 24, 2019 ~6 min

Imaging system helps surgeons remove tiny ovarian tumors

More effective surgery could boost survival rates for ovarian cancer.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
April 23, 2019 ~9 min

“Nanofiber yarn” makes for stretchy, protective artificial tissue

Twisted fibers coated with living cells could assist healing of injured muscles and tendons.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
April 23, 2019 ~6 min

MIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing

An affordable, easy-to-use handheld sensor, soon to enter the market, can indicate the presence of bacterial contaminants in food in seconds.

Andi Sutton | Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab • mit
April 9, 2019 ~8 min


New 3-D printing approach makes cell-scale lattice structures

System could provide fine-scale meshes for growing highly uniform cultures of cells with desired properties.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
March 25, 2019 ~5 min

A new approach to drugging a difficult cancer target

Study suggests an alternative way to treat tumors that are dependent on the cancer-promoting Myc protein.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
March 14, 2019 ~7 min

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