Socioeconomic background linked to reading improvement
Dyslexic children from lower-income families benefit more from summer reading intervention. About 20 percent of children in the United States have difficulty learning to read, and educators have devised a variety of interventions to try to help them. Not every program helps every student, however, in part because the origins…
Read MoreMaking prosthetic limbs feel more natural
Muscle grafts could help amputees sense and control artificial limbs. A new surgical technique devised by MIT researchers could allow prosthetic limbs to feel much more like natural limbs. Through coordination of the patient’s prosthetic limb, existing nerves, and muscle grafts, amputees would be able to sense where their limbs…
Read MoreZika virus likely circulated in Americas long before its detection
The Zika virus circulated in many regions of the Americas for several months before cases of infection were detected, according to new data from an international research team from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and several collaborating institutions. These findings, revealed today in Nature in a paper led…
Read MoreStudy offers guidance for targeting residual ovarian tumors
Most women diagnosed with ovarian cancer undergo surgery to remove as many of the tumors as possible. However, it is usually impossible to eliminate all of the cancer cells because they have spread throughout the abdomen. Surgery is therefore followed by 18 weeks of chemotherapy. Delivering chemotherapy drugs directly to…
Read MoreNational Academy of Sciences elects six MIT professors
Bell, Bhatia, Cummins, Duflo, Jensen, and Mavalvala honored for research achievements. Six MIT faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” MIT’s six new NAS members are: Stephen Bell, a professor of biology; Sangeeta…
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