better prostethetics

MIT researchers in collaboration with surgeons at Harvard Medical School have devised a new type of amputation surgery that can help amputees better control their residual muscles and receive sensory feedback.

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New surgery may enable better control of prosthetic limbs

MIT researchers, including an HST alum and a current HST student, have shown that reconnecting muscle pairs during amputation gives patients more sensory feedback from the limb.

Jeff Behrens

Jeff Behrens, course director for HST 590.

Biotech possibilities: The rocky road from the laboratory to the market

Jeff Behrens, course director for HST 590, has founded a few start-ups in his time, and has also studied the obstacles to starting and funding successful biotech companies as part of his doctoral research. “In tech, it is common for first-time entrepreneurs to launch companies and raise significant capital; however, in life sciences this is much more rare,” he says. “And I wanted to learn, why is that?”

MIT Vaccine update

MIT is one of several area universities to receive state approval to vaccinate its own campus community.

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MIT developing framework for Covid-19 vaccinations on campus

State grants approval for Institute to help in vaccinating approximately 50,000 students, employees, affiliates, and dependents.