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MIT postdocs deliver a disruptive rapid vaccine development platform

Civil and environmental engineering professor Lydia Bourouiba, pictured with graduate student Yongji Wong, collects and analyzes data on the spread of infectious disease. Photo: Lillie Paquette

Leading with Data

In their own words: MIT faculty on advancing health in a data-rich era

Focusing on three Boston-area communities experiencing interventions and six control communities, MIT researchers (including grad students Rob Call and Leigh Carroll, pictured center and at right in Roxbury) partnered this summer with community members (including Shannon Simpson, left) to field surveys on topics from health to violence and displacement. Photo: Peter Gumaskas

Seven Ways Data Are Making a Difference

Underworlds

MIT researchers and a robot named Luigi tap into the secrets of sewage

A doctor and patient in the hospital

Intensive Analysis

A clinical database of unprecedented scope opens new avenues for improving critical care

Erin Hong '17, left, and Aaron Zalewski '17

Working with MIMIC: Two Student Perspectives

Graduate student Joohyun Seo SM'14, left, and faculty member Charles Sodini with their device for measuring arterial blood pressure. Photo: Lillie Paquette

Collectors’ Items

A closer look at two next-generation devices for capturing medical data

This device built by MIT researchers can be reconfigured to manufacture several different types of pharmaceuticals. Image: Courtesy of the researchers

On-Demand Pills at Emergency Speed, Thanks to New Pharmaceutical Device

Spotlight

A Digital Boost