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Emery Brown anesthesia research

Different anesthetics, same result: unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase

June 9, 2025

MIT study finds an easily measurable brain wave shift may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under anesthesia.

Courses on developing AI models for health care need to focus more on teaching how to identify and address bias.

3 Questions: How to help students recognize potential bias in their AI datasets

June 9, 2025

Courses on developing AI models for health care need to focus more on identifying and addressing bias, says IMES researcher Leo Anthony Celi.

Hunter Lamere smiles and holds a large fish while standing on a boat in open water

IMES community profile: Hunter Lamere

May 28, 2025

IMES EHS Coordinator Hunter Lamere has been helping IMES-affiliated research labs with compliance, as well as other facility issues, for almost ten years.

Ting Goessling Ebert

HST Community Awards and Spring Dinner celebration

May 22, 2025

HST students, both current and alum, as well as faculty and staff, gathered for a scientific keynote, and to celebrate the end of a busy school year.

MIT researchers found that vision-language models, which are widely used to analyze medical images to streamline diagnosis,…

Study shows vision-language models can’t handle queries with negation words

May 15, 2025

Words like “no” and “not” can cause this popular class of AI models to fail unexpectedly in high-stakes settings, such as medical diagnosis.

Twenty-two members of the MIT engineering faculty received awards in winter 2025.

School of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards for winter 2025

May 12, 2025

Faculty members and researchers, including IMES faculty, were honored in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence.

A study of the skin bacteria found on children as young as 5, as well as their parents, has helped MIT researchers learn…

Study of facial bacteria could lead to probiotics that promote healthy skin

May 2, 2025

During the early teen years, many new strains of C. acnes colonize the skin on our faces. This could be an optimal time for probiotic treatment.

Emery Brown, seen in his MIT Building 46 office at The Picower Institute, is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical…

In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use

May 2, 2025

Clinical trial finds several outcomes improved for young children when an anesthesiologist observed their brain waves to guide dosing of sevoflurane during surgery, according to research that included an IMES faculty member.

Menstruation research Alix Wagner

Menstruation science moonshot: MIT’s bold quest to revolutionize women’s health

April 25, 2025

Linda Griffith: "We want to create an international movement that helps us bring a lot of great sience and engineering into the study of menstruation."

Pollina Golland

New method assesses and improves the reliability of radiologists’ diagnostic reports

April 25, 2025

The framework helps clinicians choose phrases that more accurately reflect the likelihood that certain conditions are present in X-rays. 

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