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Maintaining healthy levels of glucose in the blood is a critical but often painstaking task for diabetics, involving regular insulin injections and fingerprick blood tests to ensure everything is kept in check. A new synthetic film developed at MIT cou… Continue reading Self-assembling intestinal film blocks glucose uptake to treat diabetes
Manasi Vartak, founder and CEO of Verta, conceived of the idea of the open source project ModelDB database as a way to track versions of machine models while she was still in grad school at MIT. After she graduated, she decided to expand on that vision to build a product that could not only track […] Continue reading MIT CSAIL grad launches machine learning platform with $10M Series A
Derived from living organisms, biologic drugs show a lot of promise, particularly because they can be personalized to the unique needs of individual patients. They’re often difficult to inject through the skin, though, which is where a new hypodermic n… Continue reading Double-barrelled needle designed for quick injections of viscous drugs
Using a novel multi-modal approach to data analysis, scientists have identified a specific subtype of autism linked with a gene cluster known to affect both neurodevelopment and lipid metabolism. The research suggests this subtype could account for nearly seven percent of autism cases and future study will explore whether cholesterol-lowering drugs such as statins could be an effective treatment.
Category: Science
Tags: Autism, Neuroscience, Cholesterol, metabolism, Genetics, Harvard, Alzheimer’s Disease, MIT, Northwestern University
Continue reading Subtype of autism linked with abnormal cholesterol levels identified
While bicycle-sharing systems certainly are proving to be popular, they still have a few problems, such as the limited availability of bikes. Researchers at the MIT Media Lab are working on a solution, in the form of the MIT Autonomous Bicycle.Continue… Continue reading MIT’s shared ebike transforms into a self-driving trike
A team of engineers at MIT led by C. Cem Tasan has discovered why steel razor blades go dull even when cutting hair that’s 50 times softer than them. Using an electron microscopic, they found that under the right conditions a single hair can chip a bla… Continue reading MIT study reveals why razor blades go dull cutting humble old hair
Most meteorites that fall to Earth belong to one of two broad groups – there are rocky ones, and there are metallic ones that were once molten iron. But one puzzling group of meteorites appears to belong to both camps at once, and now scientists have d… Continue reading Mysterious meteorites came from an asteroid with a liquid metal core
Driven by the huge burden they place on the environment, scientists are continually looking for new ways to manufacture plastic materials that make them easier to recycle, and MIT researchers are now claiming a significant breakthrough in this area. By… Continue reading MIT’s new degradable plastic matches its peers for mechanical strength
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in many ways, some obvious and some less so. Now, scientists have quantified an effect that lies a few links down the chain, finding that solar panels in certain cities have seen a boost in output, du… Continue reading Pandemic pollution drop found to boost solar panel output
Using the breath to gauge the health of our lungs and reveal diseases related to them is emerging as a diagnostic tool with huge potential, with a number of promising technologies on the horizon. Joining them is a new type of nanoparticle developed at … Continue reading MIT nanoparticles tag proteins to reveal disease via the breath