6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (600+ words) Shannon Knight attributes her interest in neuroscience to an experience she had in high school. She and her sister attended a medical day for students at the nearby University of Illinois Chicago. As they were on their way out of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (850+ words) For people at high risk of developing breast cancer, yearly mammograms may not be enough to detect tumors early. To make earlier diagnosis easier, an MIT team has developed portable detectors based on ultrasound, which could be used much more…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (835+ words) Interpreting medical ultrasound images is a difficult task, requiring a technician to look at 2D images and mentally arrange them into a 3D representation of what the tissue looks like. To make that job easier, MIT researchers developed a new approach to…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (507+ words) MIT engineers have developed a noninvasive pacemaker that stimulates the heart using ultrasound. The design could one day provide a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants. In experiments in the lab, the researchers applied ultrasound waves to engineered human cardiac…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (598+ words) The brain’s capacity to use and understand language expands rapidly in the first years of life. But by age 4, language processing is already handled by the left side of the brain, as in adults, according to an MIT study....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (411+ words) “Individual mutations matter,” says Mriganka Sur, senior author of the new open-accdess study in Nature Communications and the Newton Professor in the Picower Institute and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. “This is an approach to personalizing treatment, even…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (228+ words) Seven MIT researchers are among the 130 new members and 28 international members recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2026. Twelve additional MIT alumni were also elected as new members. The seven MIT electees this year include: Piotr Indyk,…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (711+ words) A new study from MIT suggests that a carcinogen that has been found in medications and in drinking water contaminated by chemical plants may have a much more severe impact on children than adults. In a study of mice, the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (342+ words) Audiobooks allow students to access similar content in a different way. For their study, the researchers partnered with Learning Ally, an organization that produces audiobooks synchronized with highlighted text on a computer screen, so students can follow along as they…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1019+ words) For people who are at high risk of developing breast cancer, frequent screenings with ultrasound can help detect tumors early. MIT researchers have now developed a miniaturized ultrasound system that could make it easier for breast ultrasounds to be performed…...