The tiny device uses a tightly focused beam of light to capture and manipulate cells. MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium ...

For graduate students Kelsey Pittman and Jacqueline Orr, service in the U.S. military led to their interest in engineering, ...

By simulating a magnetic field on a superconducting quantum computer, researchers can explore the intricate properties of ...

Last Friday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) issued an immediate “interim” suspension of graduate student ...

By studying changes in gene expression, researchers learn how cells function at a molecular level, which could help them understand the development of certain diseases.

Over the past two decades, new technologies have helped scientists generate a vast amount of biological data. Large-scale ...

Associate Professor Thomas Heldt joined the MIT faculty in 2013 as a core member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and ...

For the study, the researchers focused on a type of GenAI model known as a transformer, which forms the backbone of LLMs like ...

The relentless march of computational power has long relied on our ability to make electronic components smaller and more ...

MIT researchers developed theoretical foundations for methods that could identify the best way to aggregate genes into modules and efficiently learn the underlying cause-and-effect relationships among ...