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MIA 10-Year Anniversary Celebration

🥳 You’re invited – please join us on Friday, October 17 for our MIA 10-Year Anniversary Celebration!  đź“… Friday, October 17 📍 Broad Institute – 300 Binney St. (2110 – Charles) ✍️ Register

October 7, 2025

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.

September 25, 2025

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.

September 9, 2025

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.

August 22, 2025

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.

June 16, 2025

Startup’s biosensor makes drug development and manufacturing cheaper

Protein sensor developed by alumna-founded Advanced Silicon Group can be used for research and quality control in biomanufacturing.

May 16, 2025

With AI, researchers predict the location of virtually any protein within a human cell

Trained with a joint understanding of protein and cell behavior, the model could help with diagnosing disease and developing new drugs.

Thesis Defense: Barış Ekim, Minimizer-space computation

Title: Minimizer-space computation Presenter: Barış EkimPresenter’s affiliation: CSAILThesis supervisor(s): Prof. Bonnie Berger Date: May 9, 2025Time: 09:30AM – 11:30AMIn-person location: 32-G575 Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/95555831150 Abstract: As the volume of

Thesis Defense: Hao He, Contactless Sleep and Physiological Monitoring Using Artificial Intelligence and Radio Waves

Doctoral Thesis Title:  Contactless Sleep and Physiological Monitoring Using Artificial Intelligence and Radio WavesPresenter: Hao HePresenter’s Affiliation (CSAIL, RLE, LIDS, MTL, etc.): CSAILThesis Supervisor(s): Prof. Dina Katabi Date: May 7, 2025Time: 2:30 pm –

April 11, 2025

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.