For over 30 years, science photographer Felice Frankel has helped MIT professors, researchers, and students communicate their work visually. Throughout that time, she has seen the development of various tools to support…
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Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award | MIT News
MIT Professor Markus J. Buehler has been named the recipient of the 2025 Washington Award, one of the nation’s oldest and most esteemed engineering honors.
The Washington Award is conferred to “an engineer(s) whose…
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Collaborating to advance research and innovation on essential chips for AI | MIT News
The following is a joint announcement from the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and GlobalFoundries.
MIT and GlobalFoundries (GF), a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors, have announced a new research…
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An ancient RNA-guided system could simplify delivery of gene editing therapies | MIT News
A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to uncover ancient systems with potential to expand the genome editing…
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AI system predicts protein fragments that can bind to or inhibit a target | MIT News
All biological function is dependent on how different proteins interact with each other. Protein-protein interactions facilitate everything from transcribing DNA and controlling cell division to higher-level functions in…
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MIT spinout maps the body’s metabolites to uncover the hidden drivers of disease | MIT News
Biology is never simple. As researchers make strides in reading and editing genes to treat disease, for instance, a growing body of evidence suggests that the proteins and metabolites surrounding those genes can’t be…
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AI model deciphers the code in proteins that tells them where to go | MIT News
Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a specialized function. Researchers have long known that the structure of a protein…
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Gift from Sebastian Man ’79, SM ’80 supports MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing building | MIT News
The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has received substantial support for its striking new headquarters on Vassar Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A major gift from Sebastian Man ’79, SM ’80 will be…
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Bridging philosophy and AI to explore computing ethics | MIT News
During a meeting of class 6.C40/24.C40 (Ethics of Computing), Professor Armando Solar-Lezama poses the same impossible question to his students that he often asks himself in the research he leads with the Computer…
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Puzzling out climate change | MIT News
Shreyaa Raghavan’s journey into solving some of the world’s toughest challenges started with a simple love for puzzles. By high school, her knack for problem-solving naturally drew her to computer science. Through her…
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