Tool Box
MIT-made online resources address Haitian education, banking reform, and global development
Topics: Human Health
An Emphasis on Health
Retsef Levi and colleagues are helping to create a medical system focused on improving patient outcomes
Breaking the Bottleneck in Genetic Engineering
A startup backed by The Engine harnesses microfluidics to reprogram cells with unprecedented speed
Why Do You Ask?
The power of wanting to know
How Can Computers Apply What They’ve Learned to New Situations?
Developing this capacity in machine learning could better equip it for human interaction and a host of medical applications
How Can We Defeat the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance?
For MIT researchers working to hold the line against infection, step one is to know your enemy
How Does the Brain Connect Smells with Behaviors?
For Gloria Choi, olfactory cues are a gateway to some of the brain’s greatest mysteries
How Can an MIT Undergrad Help to Tackle Heart Disease?
Through SuperUROP, Ebenezer Nkwate ’17 spent his senior year learning to build synthetic genetic circuits
Seeing the Light
Aging Brain Initiative researchers discover a potential Alzheimer’s therapy
Growing Knowledge
Using cancer cells to study neural development