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A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors
A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors

Encapsulating modified bacteria in tough hydrogel spheres prevents them from spreading genes to other microbes.

An artificial intelligence tool that can help detect melanoma
An artificial intelligence tool that can help detect melanoma

Using deep convolutional neural networks, researchers devise a system that quickly analyzes wide-field images of patients’ skin in order to more efficiently detect cancer.

Reinventing the graduate student community during a pandemic
Reinventing the graduate student community during a pandemic

Sidney Pacific residents empower each other to sustain community togetherness.

3 Questions: Defining the Institute’s values
3 Questions: Defining the Institute’s values

Daniel Hastings and Tracy Gabridge share their experiences as co-chairs of MIT’s Values Statement Committee.

Navigating uncertainty through song
Navigating uncertainty through song

Senior Alberto Naveira has found himself and his community as a member of the a cappella group the Chorallaries.

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty
School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

Fifteen new professors join the MIT community.

A streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
A streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys

MIT research team finds machine learning techniques offer big advantages over standard experimental and theoretical approaches.

A robot that senses hidden objects
A robot that senses hidden objects

System uses penetrative radio frequency to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.

Tactile textiles sense movement via touch
Tactile textiles sense movement via touch

By measuring a person’s movements and poses, smart clothes developed at MIT CSAIL could be used for athletic training, rehabilitation, or health-monitoring for elder-care facilities.

Matthew Vander Heiden named director of the Koch Institute
Matthew Vander Heiden named director of the Koch Institute

MIT biology professor and pioneering researcher of cancer cell metabolism will succeed longtime director Tyler Jacks.

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