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These compounds can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes deadly infections.

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.

“Minimum viewing time” benchmark gauges image recognition complexity for AI systems by measuring the time needed for accurate human identification.

Using generative AI, MIT chemists created a model that can predict the structures formed when a chemical reaction reaches its point of no return.

A new method enables optical devices that more closely match their design specifications, boosting accuracy and efficiency.

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.

Speranza system brings hope to users that the package they download is functional software, not malware.

The one-step fabrication process rapidly produces miniature chemical reactors that could be used to detect diseases or analyze substances.

The realistic model could aid the development of better heart implants and shed light on understudied heart disorders.