Articles by Massachusetts Institute of Technology

With the new technique, researchers hope to identify mutations that could be targeted with new cancer therapies

The advance makes ctDNA detection in blood samples easier, enabling earlier cancer diagnosis and treatment

These antibiotics could kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a notorious bacterium that causes chronic infections and death

The advance allows the particles to be placed deeper within biological tissue, which could aid with cancer diagnosis

Boosting the efficiency of single-cell RNA-sequencing helps reveal subtle differences between healthy and dysfunctional cells

While risk models are useful in most cases, they do not make accurate predictions for many patients, which can lead doctors to choose ineffective or unnecessarily risky treatments for some patients

Specialized dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable 'on-patient' storage of vaccination history

With a new method, surgeons would remove a tumor, then implant microparticles that attack the remaining cancer cells