Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, and Arup Chakraborty earn MIT’s highest faculty honor. Arup K. Chakraborty and Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, have been named Institute Professors, the highest honor for MIT ...

In this year’s STAT Madness, a bracket-style competition to honor the best in recent biomedical research, each finalist exploited carbon nanotubes to tackle one of the two leading causes of death in ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s first-ever vice president for equity and inclusion announced his resignation on Friday, according to an internal message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth.

After over a year of disputes, the Broad Institute—a genetics research center affiliated with Harvard and MIT—won the right to keep its patent for CRISPR, a groundbreaking gene-editing technology, in ...

It’s the end of an era: Tyler Jacks, Ph.D., the founding director of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is leaving the game after 19 years. Stepping up to the plate is Matthew ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Five months after its founding director, Tyler Jacks ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, The Engine, the venture firm spun out of MIT that invests in early-stage Tough Tech companies solving the world’s most urgent problems, announced the ...

A research institute backed by two of Massachusetts' most illustrious universities has joined the state effort to test patients for the coronavirus. The Broad Institute, founded in 2004 by MIT and ...

Researchers say they have potentially developed a new, more convenient tests for the coronavirus that uses the genetic technology known as CRISPR and could produce results in less than an hour. The ...