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MindHandHeart announces a record 21 new Innovation Fund winners

A meditative nature retreat, healthy cooking projects, and several initiatives advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion are coming to MIT courtesy...

Whitehead Institute receives $10 million to study sex chromosomes’ impact on women’s health

The Whitehead Institute has announced that Brit Jepson d’Arbeloff SM '61 — a pioneering engineer, advocate for women in science,...

Daily funding roundup – January 7th, 2020

TeleVet closed $2M; Ripple Science and OncoLens raised $2.5M; Debut Biotechnology landed $2.6M TeleVet: TeleVet platform is connecting veterinary clinics to...

Making real a biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops

As food demand rises due to growing and changing populations around the world, increasing crop production has been a vital...

Finding the true potential of algorithms

Each semester, Associate Professor Virginia Vassilevska Williams tries to impart one fundamental lesson to her computer-science undergraduates: Math is the...

MIT School of Engineering and Takeda join to advance research in artificial intelligence and health

MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited today announced the MIT-Takeda Program to fuel the development and application...

Screen could offer better safety tests for new chemicals

It’s estimated that there are approximately 80,000 industrial chemicals currently in use, in products such as clothing, cleaning solutions, carpets,...

$125 million for Inscripta may usher in the next wave of genetic engineering

In these waning days of the second decade of the twenty-first century, technologists and investors are beginning to lay the foundations for new,...

Two MIT seniors named 2020 Marshall Scholars

Talya Klinger and Steven Truong are MIT’s newest Marshall Scholars. The students are recipients of the prestigious British government-funded fellowship,...

A new way to control microbial metabolism

Microbes can be engineered to produce a variety of useful compounds, including plastics, biofuels, and pharmaceuticals. However, in many cases,...

School of Engineering third quarter 2019 awards

Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. Every quarter,...

Six MIT faculty elected 2019 AAAS Fellows

Six MIT faculty members have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The new...

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