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MIT engineers create nanoparticles for delivering personalized cancer vaccines: « The particles carry a customized dose of cancer antigens that can provoke a strong immune response against tumors

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Margaret Hamilton has died

26 days ago news.mit.edu nasa

Powered by muscle cells, a paper-thin robot swims through watery maze: « MIT engineers’ new aquabot offers a way to design small, efficient “biohybrid” robots

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Generative AI's Environmental Impact

3 days ago news.mit.edu ai

Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

27 days ago news.mit.edu astronomy

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors

21 days ago news.mit.edu mit

Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its own movement as it bends and twists

23 days ago news.mit.edu

3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines

28 days ago news.mit.edu

Documenting the tech worker movement

29 days ago news.mit.edu

Study: A burst of "pink noise" may lead to more restorative sleep

53 days ago news.mit.edu neuroscience

MIT used AI to develop new recipe for mRNA vaccines so they no longer need freezers and can sit at room temp for a full year or survive about 100F heat for two months which could finally let these vaccines reach poor countries without cold storage and even work as easy skin patches instead of shots.

33 days ago news.mit.edu ai medicine mit mrna

Study predicts large disparities in access to food, water, and energy in 2050

55 days ago news.mit.edu environment

MIT researchers have identified a cellular pathway controlled by the YAP1 protein that allows colorectal cancer to metastasize, discovering that obesity and high-fat diets can trigger this process through the production of fatty molecules called ceramides.

38 days ago news.mit.edu cancer mit

Rather than killing cells for a single RNA snapshot, a new molecular method uses engineered virus-like particles to continuously track gene activity in living cells

58 days ago news.mit.edu biology

Atlas of the brain’s striatum could guide researchers to new drug treatments: « A new study reveals insights into populations of neurons affected by Huntington’s disease, schizophrenia…

2 months ago news.mit.edu brain disease neuroscience

MIT engineers connect bacteria to create living transistors

2 months ago news.mit.edu mit transistor

When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data

2 months ago news.mit.edu ai art

How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

2 months ago news.mit.edu mit

Astronomers discover a brand-new type of astrophysical object: A black hole star, « The mashup of a black hole and an enormous star has never been seen before and could explain the mysterious little red dots often found in deep-space images

2 months ago news.mit.edu astronomy

Turning molecules into reliable electronic devices

2 months ago news.mit.edu hardware science

Scientists unveil more than 600 new tissue models of human cancer: « Derived from patient tumor samples and available to researchers around the world, the cells will aid the development of new cancer treatments

2 months ago news.mit.edu cancer

Separating logic and language

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For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings

3 months ago news.mit.edu

An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener

3 months ago news.mit.edu patent

New flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird