Researchers at MIT, including an HST faculty member, and the Ragon Institute of MIT, MGH, and Harvard, are now working on strategies for designing a universal flu vaccine that could work against any flu strain.
Three MIT faculty members, including from HST, have been chosen to receive the New Innovators Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of its High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.
Using specialized nanoparticles, MIT engineers have developed a way to turn off specific genes in cells of the bone marrow, which play an important role in producing blood cells.
Blogger and HST MEMP Phd student Mingyu Y. has penned a poem about how new classmates became friends while solving weekly crosswords together: "Crosswords are more than just brain-twisting clues; / They helped me to find my community too."
