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Disorders of the small intestine are often difficult to diagnose and treat. More than 20 feet long, an inch in diameter, and located deep within the body, this organ is harder to access than other...
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Each year, Climate Week NYC brings together more than 100,000 people in more than 1,000 events across the city to discuss climate challenges, explore solutions, and spur action. Participants come...
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Dozens of surgical procedures require doctors to connect two pieces of tissue together in a delicate stitching process. It happens in triple heart bypass, C-sections, and surgeries to repair hernias...
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Establishing a human presence on the moon will require state-of-the-art spacecraft, spacesuits, life-support systems, and some of the most sophisticated technology humans have ever built. It will...
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Chris Wiernicki SM ’85, Retired Chairman and CEO of American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), and Captain Joseph Darcy ENG ’09, SM ’09 have been appointed as Professors of the Practice in the Department of...
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From its beginning in 2015, the premise of MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative (ABI) has been that neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s are complex, “system-wide” breakdowns that will require...
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Video-based motor assessment could enable important scalable assessment of patients with conditions that impact neurological function, but for patients with rare diseases researchers are constrained...
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MIT engineers have developed a flexible, shape-sensing sheet that digitally reconstructs its own form as it bends and twists.
The sensor is similar in principle to some motion-capture garments,...
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Until recently, when a Massachusetts shellfish warden needed to know how much rain had fallen overnight before deciding whether to close a shellfishing area, the process might look something like...
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In 2017, a man named Michael walked onto stage in front of a packed Kresge Auditorium at MIT and attempted to draw a spiral, a common test doctors use to diagnose Parkinson’s disease. His tremors,...
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Swimming can take a lot of muscle. But as MIT engineers have found, even a single layer of muscle cells can power through water if designed right.
In a paper appearing today in the journal Advanced...
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One of the main reasons that ovarian cancer is among the deadliest forms of cancer is timing: When doctors catch it early, the five-year survival rate can be north of 90 percent. But when doctors...
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Repeatability in engineering product design ensures that a manufacturing process performs the same way every time and allows for a working prototype to be transformed into a reliable, safe,...
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Using materials safe for human consumption, MIT researchers have created tiny batteries that could be used to power ingestible electronic devices. Such batteries could make the devices safer for...
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As we age, some of the cells in our body enter a state of senescence, in which they stop dividing but do not die. Those senescent cells can contribute to age-related disorders such as cancer, tissue...
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Warming temperatures are fueling more extreme weather-related events — catastrophic floods, severe hurricanes and cyclones, and wildfires exacerbated by drought. But the tools used by local...
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Each year, faculty and researchers across the MIT School of Engineering are recognized with prestigious awards for their contributions to research, technology, society, and education. To celebrate...
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Most human physical interaction tasks require the production of force, but there are factors, including the mechanical stability of the given task and the person’s body configuration, that can...
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The world needs more homes. The world also has too much plastic. Perhaps the only thing those two problems have in common is that they’re hard to solve.
Atlas Building Composites, a spinout of MIT,...
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MIT researchers have developed a new technique that helps generative artificial intelligence models find solutions to high-stakes problems.
In these settings, a plausible answer is not enough: The...