How Omicron escapes from antibodies
A computational study by MIT researchers, including an HST student, shows that dozens of mutations help the virus’ spike protein evade antibodies that target SARS-CoV-2. A new study from MIT suggests that the dozens of mutations in the spike protein of the Omicron variant help it to evade all four…
Read MoreProfessor Emery Brown has big plans for anesthesiology
In stepping down as co-director of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Brown will work to develop a new center for anesthesiology research. Emery N. Brown—the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and of Computational Neuroscience at MIT, an MIT professor of health sciences and technology, an…
Read MoreBourouiba wins $2.2M NIH Grant
Award is part of a larger, multipdisciplinary team grant to study biophysics of tuberculosis transmission MIT Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba, an affiliate faculty member at the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), is part of a multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary team that received $16 million from the National Institutes…
Read MoreResearch advances technology of AI assistance for anesthesiologists
A new deep learning algorithm trained to optimize doses of propofol to maintain unconsciousness during general anesthesia could aid anesthesiologists and augment monitoring, according to a new study. A new study by researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), including an IMES faculty member, suggested the day may be…
Read MoreThe downside of machine learning in health care
Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi, an IMES faculty member, explores how hidden biases in medical data could compromise artificial intelligence approaches. While working toward her dissertation in computer science at MIT, Marzyeh Ghassemi, wrote several papers on how machine-learning techniques from artificial intelligence could be applied to clinical data in order…
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