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Long arc of science enables mRNA vaccines for Covid-19

WEBSome of the most promising vaccines developed to combat Covid-19 rely on messenger RNA (mRNA) — a template that cells use to carry genetic instructions for producing …

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3 Questions: How COVID-19 tests work and why they’re in …

WEBA: There are three main types of tests. The first uses the detection of nucleic acid. These tests directly test for the RNA genome of the virus in a variety of sample …

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Keeping Aging Brains Healthy

WEBThis is a global challenge. Dementias of aging now claim 46 million people worldwide, with the numbers poised to double every 20 years. The annual cost – now estimated at $604 …

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Restoring aging brains

WEBRestoring aging brains. Picower Professor of Neuroscience Li-Huei Tsai (left) is the head of MIT's Aging Brain Initiative and works on non-invasive techniques to combat Alzheimer's …

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Responding to a Pandemic

WEBCRISPR COVID test. CRISPR COVID test. CRISPR comes to COVID: a pandemic pivot and the push for a simple coronavirus test. MIT professor and Sherlock Biosciences co …

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Advocating for vaccine equity

WEBMahat, Sharp, and colleagues also actively encouraged MIT president Rafael Reif to join university leadership in urging the Biden administration to donate vaccines to low …

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Explained: The sugar coating of life

WEBIn the narrowest sense, glycobiology is the study of the structure, biology, and evolution of glycans, the carbohydrates and sugar-coated molecules found in every …

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Seeing the whole person

WEBA portrait of MIT alumna Margaret Okobi ’16. Credit: Steph Stevens. With only one year left of medical school at Harvard, Mo Okobi ’16, took a leave of absence. …

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On Earth Day, lessons from Covid-19 pandemic offer hope

WEBIf humanity can take the right lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic, we will be better equipped to galvanize action on climate change, MIT President L. Rafael Reif writes in …

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Health benefits and wellness support

WEBMyLife Services. MIT MyLife Services is a one-stop, free resource that provides MIT faculty, staff, postdocs and their families with 24/7 access to a network of experts who can help …

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To advance artificial intelligence, reverse-engineer the brain

WEBTo advance AI, reverse engineering the brain is the way forward. The solution is right behind our eyes. James J. DiCarlo, is a professor of neuroscience and an investigator in …

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Passing the baton of science

WEBJay Stein PhD ’68 came to MIT as a doctoral student in physics to study the composition of stars using X-rays. Though he was interested in astronomical objects, he …

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Elegance in C. elegans

WEBThe millimeter-long C. elegans are an ideal model for this work because their nervous system, with just 302 neurons, has been well-characterized: “It is the only …

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Searching for Habitable Worlds

WEBOn Sept. 5, NASA awarded a Silver Achievement Medal to the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) team. George Ricker, TESS principal investigator and senior research …

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Seed funding helps science researchers bear fruit

WEBThrough the Jarve Seed Fund for Science Innovation established in 2019, the Jarve family has provided seed funding to support more than 20 research projects …

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