Dermatologists and general practitioners are somewhat less accurate in diagnosing disease in darker skin, a new study finds. Used correctly, AI may be able to help.

MIT CSAIL researchers develop advanced machine-learning models that outperform current methods in detecting pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

The advance makes it easier to detect circulating tumor DNA in blood samples, which could enable earlier cancer diagnosis and help guide treatment.

A new MIT study identifies six systemic factors contributing to patient hazards in laboratory diagnostics tests.

Study of rigorous trial shows mixed results, suggests need to keep examining how nutrition can combat a pervasive disease.

Swallowing the device before a meal could create a sense of fullness, tricking the brain into thinking it’s time to stop eating.

By reevaluating existing data, researchers find the procedure is even more valuable than consensus had indicated.

MIT researchers find that in mice and human cell cultures, lipid nanoparticles can deliver a potential therapy for inflammation in the brain, a prominent symptom in Alzheimer’s.

Human volunteers will soon begin receiving an HIV vaccine that contains an adjuvant developed in Irvine’s lab, which helps to boost B cell responses to the vaccine.

MIT and MGH researchers design a local, gel-based drug-delivery platform that may provoke a system-wide immune response to metastatic tumors.