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Diagnosing childhood depression before it starts. Image: MIT News

Brain Scans Could Catch Depression Before it Starts

On World Toilet Day, Access to Sanitation is No Joke

Photo: Andy Ryan

Commonwealth Foundation Gift Accelerates Collaborative Cancer Research

Continuum

Targeting the Future of Food

Fat cells in the human body. Image: Shutterstock

“Master Switch” Suggests New Hope for Obesity

Feeling Queasy? Anchor Yourself

The illustration depicts Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (white) living on mammalian cells in the gut (large pink cells coated in microvilli) and being activated by exogenously added chemical signals (small green dots) to express specific genes, such as those encoding light-generating luciferase proteins (glowing bacteria). Image: Janet Iwasa

Programmable Bacteria Could Monitor, Diagnose, and Treat Disease

Image: Courtesy the Alm Lab

Your Microbiome “Tree”

GOV/LAB: Holding Governments Accountable

Lily Tsai recently launched GOV/LAB, which gives grad students hands-on experience in political research.

GOV/LAB at Home