Nanoscale Techniques for Cancer Treatment Advances
When Paula Hammond stepped onto MIT’s campus as a first-year student in the early 1980s, she questioned whether she truly…
Category: Science
MIT Community Celebrates 93 Percent Solar Eclipse Totality
On Monday, the stars and celestial bodies truly aligned for the MIT community as clear skies and warm temperatures prevailed,…
Tips for Watching the 2024 Solar Eclipse Safely
On April 8, the United States will be graced by a total solar eclipse, an extraordinary celestial phenomenon where the…
MIT Haystack to Observe Solar Eclipse Effects with Instruments
On April 8, a spectacular total solar eclipse will traverse North America, casting a diagonal path of darkness across the…
Astronomers Discover New Black Hole Behavior in Distant Galaxy
Deep in a distant galaxy, a supermassive black hole seems to have developed a case of the hiccups! A collaborative…
Study Finds Life’s Building Blocks Stable in Venus-Like Conditions
Could there be life beyond Earth in our solar system? Scientists are looking towards the clouds of Venus as a…
MIT Faculty Tackles Cancer Grand Challenges Together
Exciting breakthroughs are on the horizon as Cancer Grand Challenges has revealed the five winning teams for 2024, featuring five…
Rapid Gene Editing Tool Identifies Cancer Mutation Effects
Tumors are known to harbor mutations across numerous genes, each affected in unique ways—from simple substitutions of one DNA nucleotide…
Noninvasive Therapy for Chemo Brain Explained
Patients undergoing chemotherapy frequently grapple with cognitive challenges, commonly referred to as “chemo brain.” This condition manifests as memory deficits…
Study Reveals Original Rock Orientations on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover is currently exploring the ancient Martian lakebed, diligently collecting rock samples that could hold the secrets of…
How early-stage cancer cells evade the immune system
Our immune system is like a vigilant guard, tasked with identifying and eliminating cells that have undergone cancerous mutations. Yet,…
Cancer vaccine shows clinical progress in hitchhiking approach
Therapeutic cancer vaccines represent a cutting-edge approach to combating malignancies. The premise is simple: when patients receive injections of peptide…
Low-cost device enhances safety of cell therapy procedures
Scientists at MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology have developed a groundbreaking microfluidic device that could revolutionize…
New Imaging Method Uncovers Human Brain Cells and Structures
A groundbreaking microscopy technique developed by researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School has allowed for unprecedented…
Astronomers discover 18 black holes feeding on nearby stars
What if I told you that star-shredding black holes could be lurking everywhere in the cosmos, just waiting for us…