MIT.nano’s Immersion Lab opens for researchers and students
Facility within MIT.nano offers equipment and capabilities for visualizing data, creating immersive environments. The MIT.nano Immersion Lab, MIT’s first open-access facility for augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) and interacting with data, is now open and available to MIT students, faculty, researchers, and external users. The powerful set of capabilities is…
Read MoreEllen Roche receives award for heart research
Ellen Roche, the W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering, and assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering, MIT, and a core faculty member at IMES, was awarded a Single Ventricle Research Fund Award from Additional Ventures for a research proposal focused on “A Multifaceted Approach to Understanding and Optimizing Single…
Read MoreTurning microbiome research into a force for health
A diverse group of researchers, including at IMES, is working to turn new discoveries about the trillions of microbes in the body into treatments for a range of diseases. The microbiome comprises trillions of microorganisms living on and inside each of us. Historically, some researchers have guessed at its role…
Read MoreDava Newman named director of MIT Media Lab
Visionary astronautics researcher, explorer, and expert on human adaptation to space will lead the Institute’s world-renowned research center. Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office Dava Newman SM ’89, SM ’89, PhD ’92, an MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics whose groundbreaking work has advanced human performance in space with the…
Read MoreRNA molecules are masters of their own destiny
At any given moment in the human body, in about 30 trillion cells, DNA is being “read” into molecules of messenger RNA, the intermediary step between DNA and proteins, in a process called transcription. Scientists have a pretty good idea of how transcription gets started: proteins called RNA polymerases are…
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