On today’s episode, we’re talking about bird flu, but in a pretty Decoder way. Lauren Leffer, who recently wrote a…
The Trump administration axes funding for climate impacts on health research
A growing body of evidence points to mounting health risks posed by climate change. Despite this, it seems the National…
Engineers develop a better way to deliver long-lasting drugs
MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less pain, by injecting them…
We’ve entered a forever war with bird flu
With major global wildlife reservoirs, managing H5N1 is an ultramarathon with no end in sight. Avian influenza is “evolving in…
Student spotlight: YongYan (Crystal) Liang
The following is part of a series of short interviews from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).…
How should we prioritize patients waiting for kidney transplants?
At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of…
Restoring healthy gene expression with programmable therapeutics
Many diseases are caused by dysfunctional gene expression that leads to too much or too little of a given protein.…
New initiative to advance innovations in pediatric care
The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS) has announced the establishment of the Hood Pediatric Innovation Hub, an…
Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?
The process of discovering molecules that have the properties needed to create new medicines and materials is cumbersome and expensive,…
Loss of Pulse alerts are rolling out on Pixel Watch 3
Loss of Pulse is a relatively unique health feature in the smartwatch world. Google is beginning to roll out its…