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MIT researchers have greatly boosted the amount of information that can be obtained using Seq-Well, a technique for rapidly sequencing RNA from single cells.

Technique recovers lost single-cell RNA-sequencing information

Boosting the efficiency of single-cell RNA-sequencing helps reveal subtle differences between healthy and dysfunctional cells. MIT researchers, including an HST faculty member and an HST student, have now greatly boosted the amount of information gleaned from each of those cells, by modifying the commonly used Seq-Well technique.

Researchers at MIT 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.

A step toward a universal flu vaccine

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 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.

Three from MIT, including an HST faculty member, receive National Institutes of Health Awards

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.

Eight 2020 graduate fellows, including HST student, pursue diverse paths.

A legacy of curiosity in the name of Hugh Hampton Young

Eight 2020 graduate fellows, including an HST student, pursue diverse paths.

MIT researchers have shown they can deliver RNAi nanoparticles to the bone marrow, influencing their function

Nanoparticles can turn off genes in bone marrow cells

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.