The engineered tissue grafts could take on the liver’s function and help thousands of people with liver failure.
Staying stable
Whether they walk on two, four, or six legs, animals maintain stability by monitoring their body position and correcting errors with every step.
AI maps how a new antibiotic targets gut bacteria
MIT CSAIL and McMaster researchers used a generative AI model to reveal how a narrow-spectrum antibiotic attacks disease-causing bacteria, speeding up a process that normally takes years.
New AI system could accelerate clinical research
By enabling rapid annotation of areas of interest in medical images, the tool can help scientists study new treatments or map disease progression.
Alzheimer’s erodes brain cells’ control of gene expression, undermining function, cognition
Study of 3.5 million cells from more than 100 human brains finds Alzheimer’s progression — and resilience to disease — depends on preserving epigenomic stability.
3Qs: Caroline Uhler on biology and medicine’s “data revolution”
Caroline Uhler is Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Engineering; Professor of EECS and in IDSS; and Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is also a core institute and scientific leadership team member. Next year, she’ll deliver a sectional lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians at their annual congress in Philadelphia, a high honor.
Protein sensor developed by alumna-founded Advanced Silicon Group can be used for research and quality control in biomanufacturing.
Trained with a joint understanding of protein and cell behavior, the model could help with diagnosing disease and developing new drugs.
Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?
A new method lets users ask, in plain language, for a new molecule with certain properties, and receive a detailed description of how to synthesize it.
A team at MIT have created a “lab kit in a box” made of locally sourced and easily replaced materials for biomedical students working in Kenya and Uganda, where supply chain and environmental issues can compound technological problems with medical equipment.