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September 29, 2016
Measuring enzyme levels could help doctors select appropriate treatments. -
August 29, 2016
New technique offers precise manipulation of when and where genes are targeted. -
August 18, 2016
Engineers program human cells to store complex histories in their DNA. -
April 8, 2016
EECS senior Ava Soleimany talks about being captain of the women’s tennis team, leadership, and her research in synthetic biology. -
March 10, 2016
Collaboration has created a pioneering new graduate university in Russia, says project director. -
March 8, 2016
Senior Neerja Aggarwal reflects on her love for theater, ultimate Frisbee, and her journey to electrical engineering -
February 5, 2016
Dedicated researcher was a circuits expert developing a retinal implant to help the blind see. -
February 2, 2016
Low-power chip processes 3-D camera data, could enable wearable device to guide the visually impaired. -
October 7, 2015
Combining MRI and other data helps machine-learning systems predict effects of neurodegenerative disease. -
September 30, 2015
MIT researchers team up with Boston Medical Center and Philips to test a noninvasive way to measure intracranial pressure. -
September 17, 2015
System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours. -
August 19, 2015
Researchers find pathway that controls metabolism by prompting fat cells to store or burn fat. -
July 9, 2015
Sensors, memory switches, and circuits can be encoded in a common gut bacterium. -
May 28, 2015
Sangeeta Bhatia, member of the EECS faculty, of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and has teamed with researchers at the University of California at San Diego to create a new way to detect cancer that has spread to the liver by using probiotics — providing a way for earlier detection of cancers such as colon and pancreatic that typcially metastasize to the liver. Read more. -
May 19, 2015
The members of Voltage, a new group in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, want to interest more freshmen and Course 6 students in the field of Electrical Engineering (EE). Sponsored by MIT IEEE/ACM, the group is working to build a cohesive network for students in both the EE degree program (6-1) as well as for students leaning to EE in the EECS degree program (6-2) — offering support and resources in academics, research and careers. Read more. -
April 24, 2015
Sangeeta Bhatia has been named the recipient of the 2015 Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy, and Employment in recognition of her work in tissue engineering, disease detection and advocacy for women in STEM. Read more. -
March 20, 2015
The Optical Society (OSA) announced on March 1, 2015, the selection of Professor James G. Fujimoto as the recipient of the Frederic Ives Medal / Quinn Prize. He is recognized for pioneering the field of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and for his research group’s and collaborator’s contributions leading to its widespread medical application and major commercial impact. Read more. -
February 21, 2015
On February 19th, the birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus, Professor James G. Fujimoto was awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. Professor Fujimoto was awarded the University’s highest academic distinction, Doctor Honoris Causa. Read more. -
February 18, 2015
Mapping the human genome, accomplished a decade ago, was heralded for laying the foundation for understanding genetic variation and links to a wide range of diseases. But genes can be switched on and off by many chemical modifications, aka "epigenetic marks." Now Manolis Kellis, EECS professor and member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Broad Institute has led an NIH group that has created a similar map of the human epigenome. This work will lead to a global map towards understanding fundamental developmental and disease processes in humans. Read more. -
February 18, 2015
Our susceptibility to disease depends both on the genes that we inherit from our parents and on our lifetime experiences. These two components — nature and nurture — seem to affect very different processes in the context of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature. Read more. -
February 5, 2015
In 2008, the World Health Organization announced a global effort to eradicate malaria, which kills about 800,000 people every year. As part of that goal, scientists are trying to develop new drugs that target the malaria parasite during the stage when it infects the human liver — crucial because some strains of malaria can lie dormant in the liver for several years before flaring up. Read more. -
February 5, 2015
Five members of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of a total of eight MIT faculty have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering including Hari Balakrishnan, Sangeeta Bhatia, Anantha Chandrakasan, L. Rafael Reif and Daniela Rus. Read more. -
January 26, 2015
Madrid-MIT M+Visión Team wins 2015 Singapore Challenge. Luca Giancardo, PhD and the neuroQWERTY team awarded $100,000 for the best proposal to help elderly to “Age in Place” with their technology. Read more. -
January 13, 2015
Professor Joel Voldman, working with EECS graduate student Burak Dura and others from Whitehead Institute and Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new device that allows scientists to follow communication between immune cells. The work, reported in the Jan. 13 issue of Nature Communications, may lead to future studies of mechanisms that involve cancer and other diseases. Read more. -
December 22, 2014
CSAIL postdoc and member of the MIT Computational Biology Group, Andreas Pfenning and collaborators at Duke University have reported findings on large data studies comparing song bird genomics with humans and primates. Vocal-learning birds and primates have common genes that could help pinpoint genetic disorders in humans such as stuttering or Huntington's Disease. Read more.
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