3 Questions: How Covid-19 tests work and why they’re in short supply
MIT scientists Omar Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg explain the current state of Covid-19 testing, and how a CRISPR tool may help solve the supply problem.
MIT scientists Omar Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg explain the current state of Covid-19 testing, and how a CRISPR tool may help solve the supply problem.
Nuclear scientists and biomedical researchers team up to investigate whether treatment with gamma radiation could make N95 masks more reusable.
Physician and MIT economist provides insights into health care during the pandemic, and how electronic or “telehealth” service has become the new form of care.
Jill Crittenden and colleagues in a new consortium provides guidance for health care workers on decontamination and reuse of N95 face masks.
Study shows that a simple urine test can reveal the presence of lung cancer in mice.
Chemical engineers have developed a way to protect transplanted drug-producing cells from immune system rejection.
Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages.
Area hospitals in need of PPE look to university labs and departments for donations.
A new approach reveals how different tissues contribute to inflammatory diseases such as ulcerative colitis.
A new model can predict which types of glucose-responsive insulin will work in humans and animals.
Introduced to the Institute through MITx and MIT Bootcamps, Jakub Chudik is now a senior in EECS and CTO of his own startup.
Design combines a common diaper material with RFID technology.
Device made of heart tissue and a robotic pumping system beats like the real thing.
Study suggests noninvasive spectroscopy could be used to monitor blood glucose levels.
A week of learning with MIT Bootcamps sparked ideas that Jal Panchal and Maria Hahn are taking forward to solve problems in health care.