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One paradox about antibiotics is that, broadly speaking, the more we use them, the less they continue to work. A team led by MIT scientists, including an HST faculty member and an HST PhD student, believes that this conundrum opens up an opportunity for a data-driven tool that could help doctors make safer, more customized decisions for patients.

Mathematical analysis of Covid-19 "super-spreading" events suggests that preventing large gatherings could significantly reduce Covid-19 infection rates.

MIT conference illustrates technologies developed in response to the pandemic and new opportunities for AI solutions for clinical management.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) announced today that it has awarded the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience to Emery Brown, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT, co-director of HST and associate director of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).

Ten years after the Hammond report recommended ways to increase faculty diversity at MIT, little has changed. This article about the history of diversity efforts at MIT first appeared in MIT Technology Review magazine.