- Study in India shows several tactics together boost vaccination against deadly diseasesOne combination of methods led to a 44 percent increase in child immunizations.
- Usha Lee McFarling named director of the Knight Science Journalism ProgramMcFarling, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and national science correspondent for STAT, was a 1992-93 Knight Science Journalism Fellow.
- Study in India shows several tactics together boost vaccination against deadly diseasesOne combination of methods led to a 44 percent increase in child immunizations.
- Usha Lee McFarling named director of the Knight Science Journalism ProgramMcFarling, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and national science correspondent for STAT, was a 1992-93 Knight Science Journalism Fellow.
- With AI, researchers predict the location of virtually any protein within a human cellTrained with a joint understanding of protein and cell behavior, the model could help with diagnosing disease and developing new drugs.
- Particles carrying multiple vaccine doses could reduce the need for follow-up shotsMIT engineers designed polymer microparticles that can deliver vaccines at predetermined times after injection.
- Class pairs students with military officers to build mission-critical solutionsMIT course 15.362/6.9160 (Engineering Innovation: Global Security Systems) gives students an inside look at military problems and empowers them to build prototypes.
- Dimitris Bertsimas receives the 2025-2026 Killian AwardThe professor of operations research is honored for his intellectual achievements and educational leadership.
- Drug injection device wins MIT $100K CompetitionCoFlo Medical’s low-cost device could administer advanced biologic treatments more quickly to people with cancers, autoimmune diseases, and more.
- Study shows vision-language models can’t handle queries with negation wordsWords like “no” and “not” can cause this popular class of AI models to fail unexpectedly in high-stakes settings, such as medical diagnosis.
