Using this computational system, researchers can identify viral protein sequences that could make better vaccine targets.

Study suggests mechanical properties of spike proteins can predict infectivity and lethality of different coronaviruses.

Letting an algorithm decide which maintenance holes to test for evidence of coronavirus could improve pandemic containment efforts.

Unexpected findings in chemokine receptors once believed to be non-functional open up new fields of scientific inquiry.

With computer models and lab experiments, researchers are working on a strategy for vaccines that could protect against any influenza virus.

A CRISPR-based test developed at MIT and the Broad Institute can detect nearly as many cases as the standard Covid-19 diagnostic.

Sequential immunization might be safer and more effective than the existing tetravalent vaccine.

Differently shaped RNA molecules allow HIV to express different genes from the same RNA sequence.

New CRISPR-based research tool delivers results in an hour; researchers share protocol and kits to advance research and move toward clinical validation.

MIT professor and intensivist/trauma surgeon explains the new challenges that Covid-19 brings to treating patients in acute respiratory distress.