Collaborating to advance research and innovation on essential chips for AI
The following is a joint announcement from the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and GlobalFoundries. MIT and GlobalFoundries (GF), a…
An ancient RNA-guided system could simplify delivery of gene editing therapies
A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Broad Institute of MIT and…
AI system predicts protein fragments that can bind to or inhibit a target
All biological function is dependent on how different proteins interact with each other. Protein-protein interactions facilitate everything…
Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way
While early language models could only process text, contemporary large language models now perform highly diverse tasks on different types of…
MIT spinout maps the body’s metabolites to uncover the hidden drivers of disease
Biology is never simple. As researchers make strides in reading and editing genes to treat disease, for instance, a growing body of evidence…
AI model deciphers the code in proteins that tells them where to go
Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a…
Gift from Sebastian Man ’79, SM ’80 supports MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing building
The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has received substantial support for its striking new headquarters on Vassar Street in…
Bridging philosophy and AI to explore computing ethics
During a meeting of class 6.C40/24.C40 (Ethics of Computing), Professor Armando Solar-Lezama poses the same impossible question to his…
Puzzling out climate change
Shreyaa Raghavan’s journey into solving some of the world’s toughest challenges started with a simple love for puzzles. By high school, her…
Can deep learning transform heart failure prevention?
The ancient Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotle once concluded that the human heart is tri-chambered and that it was the single most…