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Regina Barzilay

MIT researchers develop AI tool to improve flu vaccine strain selection

August 29, 2025

VaxSeer uses machine learning to predict virus evolution and antigenicity, aiming to make vaccine selection more accurate and less reliant on guesswork.

IMES community profile August 2025

IMES community profile: Shaniel Bowen

August 29, 2025

Biomedical engineer Shaniel Bowen combines research into female sexual anatomy and health, with steering young women toward STEM careers.

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Imaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution

August 28, 2025

By combining several cutting-edge imaging technologies, a new microscope system could enable unprecedentedly deep and precise visualization of metabolic and neuronal activity, potentially even in humans.

Alex Shalek in office

Meet Alex Shalek, director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science

August 28, 2025

For Shalek, institutes like IMES are all about creating cohesive units “greater than the sum of their parts.”

With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have discovered novel antibiotics that can combat two hard-to-treat…

Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria

August 26, 2025

The team used two different AI approaches to design novel antibiotics, including one that showed promise against MRSA.

Researchers at MIT and other institutions have discovered broad-spectrum antiviral compounds through the use of a novel…

Scientists discover compounds that help cells fight a wide range of viruses

July 28, 2025

The molecules trigger a built-in cellular stress response and show promise as broad-spectrum antivirals against Zika, herpes, RSV, and more.

Tabitha Payson

IMES community profile: Tabitha Payson

July 25, 2025

IMES Financial Officer Tabitha Payson helps keep the department’s finances and budgets on track.

In this view of cHL (classic Hodgkin Lymphoma) tissue, CellLENS identified subtle but distinct CD4 T cell subpopulations…

New AI system uncovers hidden cell subtypes, boosts precision medicine

July 22, 2025

CellLENS reveals hidden patterns in cell behavior within tissues, offering deeper insights into cell heterogeneity — vital for advancing cancer immunotherapy.

The Language/AI Incubator argues that AI’s facility with language can help medical professionals and their patients navigate…

Changing the conversation in health care

July 17, 2025

The Language/AI Incubator, an MIT Human Insight Collaborative project, is investigating how AI can improve communications among patients and practitioners.

A new implantable device carries a reservoir of glucagon that can be stored under the skin and could save diabetes patients…

Implantable device could save diabetes patients from dangerously low blood sugar

July 17, 2025

The new implant carries a reservoir of glucagon that can be stored under the skin and deployed during an emergency — with no injections needed.

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