Harnessing light energy to rejuvenate mitochondrial membrane potential slowed aging in C. elegans.
Worldwide study shows COVID vaccines and boosters reduced the risk of severe COVID-related disease in pregnant women by about 76%.
Treatment of childhood-onset hearing loss can be more precisely tailored with information on specific genetic cause.
Study reveals new therapeutic target to subdue autoimmune inflammation caused by loss of regulatory T cell function.
Dr. Shani Delaney, an associate professor of OB-GYN and maternal fetal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is a senior author of a study that found that results of a prenatal test used for over five decades should not be adjusted based on a patient's race.
Analysis of the outbreak shed light on its origins and transmission patterns, and assessed treatment and infection control.
RNA contact with tau protein spurs neurofibrillary tangles in the brain — a defining hallmark of Alzheimer’s and other diseases.
California blackworms tangle themselves up by the thousands, then separate in a split second. Their trick may inspire the design of self-detangling materials and fibers.
Collaboration finds that improved training and support of community health workers are needed to improve HIV testing.
A new automated system identified far more sepsis infections than 2 commonly used methods, researchers report.
A new machine-learning model makes more accurate predictions about ocean currents, which could help with tracking plastic pollution and oil spills, and aid in search and rescue.
Models trained using common data-collection techniques judge rule violations more harshly than humans would, researchers report.
The system they developed eliminates a source of bias in simulations, leading to improved algorithms that can boost the performance of applications.
In a recent essay, Professor Lily L. Tsai shares ideas on how to include future generations, who will face the climate crisis we’ve created, in our definition of our collective society.
The bioderived “smart sutures” could help patients heal after bowel resection or other types of surgery.
A cancer vaccine combining checkpoint blockade therapy and a STING-activating drug eliminates tumors and prevents recurrence in mice.
A new study shows the carbon-capturing phytoplankton colonized the ocean by rafting on particles of chitin.
A long-term study from Bangladesh co-authored by MIT economist Clare Balboni presents a promising solution to chronic poverty in the developing world, suggesting that when rural poor people receive a one-time capital boost, it helps them accumulate assets, find better occupations and climb out of poverty.
In 1856, amateur scientist Eunice Newton Foote’s paper “Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays,” was published in the American Journal of Science and Arts.
MIT engineers’ new technique analyzes the 3D organization of the genome at a resolution 100 times higher than before.