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…

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…

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…

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…

Many years of research have enabled scientists, including those affiliated with IMES, to quickly synthesize RNA vaccines and deliver them inside cells. Developing and testing a new vaccine typically takes at least 12 to 18 months. However, just over 10 months after the genetic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was…