Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

As people age, their immune system function declines. T cell populations decline and can’t react to pathogens as quickly, making people more susceptible to infections. To try to overcome that decline, researchers at MIT and the Broad Institute have found a way to temporarily program cells in the liver to improve T-cell function. news.mit.edu/2025/new-study…

Antibody treatments for cancer and other diseases are typically delivered intravenously, because of the large volumes that are needed per dose. This means patients have to spend hours in a hospital for every treatment. MIT engineers have now taken a major step toward reformulating antibodies so that they can be injected using a standard syringe. news.mit.edu/2025/new-way-d…

MIT researchers have developed a new electronics integration platform which allows scientists to make transistors and memory devices in one compact stack on a semiconductor chip. This eliminates a lot of wasted energy while boosting the speed of computation. news.mit.edu/2025/new-mater…

OpenProtein.AI is giving scientists the best tools to develop new treatments faster. news.mit.edu/2026/bringing-…

🚨🚨NEW EPISODE DROP  Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT🚨🚨 "If you take a lick of the lollipop of mediocrity, you will suck forever." I love this. She was talking about how MIT sustains excellence after 150+ years. And it applies to founders and CEOs who are trying to scale, more than ever. The thing is, the bar doesn't drop all at once. It drops one hire at a time, one exception at a time. It's better to have nobody than to let the standard slip even once. Every hire, every door, every message has to carry the same signal. That's how MIT maintains it's intensity.....just look at the list of grads like @vkhosla @gdb @drewhouston @mansourtarek_ @mntruell @_mohansolo @ChaseLochmiller I’ve watched this play out with the companies I work with. They hit 150 employees, the founder stops interviewing everyone, and by 500 they're asking what happened to the culture. Sally's answer: it's a lot easier to stop that slide than to recover from it. The fix is relentless consistency, clarity, and the willingness to say no far more often than you say yes. Worth remembering when growth feels urgent. ------ Listen to the full conversation with MIT President Sally Kornbluth on Long Strange Trip.👇

“I’m receiving wonderful opportunities and can serve my country, so I’m honored,” says MIT senior Brian Robinson, who plans to join the US Air Force. news.mit.edu/2026/built-to-…

MIT engineers show they can accurately measure blood glucose by shining near-infrared light on the skin. news.mit.edu/2025/noninvasi…

An international team including MIT physicists reports a new, ultraprecise measurement of the mass of the W boson particle. news.mit.edu/2026/physicist…

MIT economist Emil Verner’s historical detective work shows how banking-sector crises develop out of bad business practices. news.mit.edu/2026/failing-b…

The vibration of an atom is nature’s steadiest timekeeper; today’s atomic clocks underpin GPS, communications, and electronics worldwide. “But we and other scientists are constantly refining and chasing even more perfect time,” Vladan Vuletić says.

Hydrogen is key to many industrial processes, but its production is energy-intensive. But 1s1 Energy, co-founded by alumnus Dan Sobek, has developed an electrochemical cell material for cleaner hydrogen production that it says reduces energy use by 30 percent. news.mit.edu/2026/toward-ch…

MIT physicists have discovered 3D “moiré crystals” that simulate four-dimensional quantum materials to a T. news.mit.edu/2026/electrons…

Feeling thirsty? Why not tap into the air? MIT engineers have come up with a way to quickly recover water from an atmospheric water harvesting material. news.mit.edu/2025/ultrasoni…

MIT researchers have developed a lightweight polymer film that is nearly impenetrable to gas molecules, and could be used as a protective coating to slow the aging of packaged food and medicines. news.mit.edu/2025/new-light…

MIT physicists have reported their observation of new key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in “magic-angle” twisted tri-layer graphene (MATTG). news.mit.edu/2025/physicist…

From grainy transmissions to HD video from lunar orbit: With MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s laser comms on Artemis II, astronauts won’t just go farther, they’ll stay connected in real time. news.mit.edu/2026/lincoln-l…

In celebration of the launch of Artemis II, the first crewed U.S. moon mission since the 1970s, we look back at our blue ocean world, as seen from the very first crewed moon mission, Apollo 8, in December 1968. Godspeed to the Artemis II astronauts and congrats to all, from MIT and elsewhere, who helped make this milestone possible! wgbh.org/news/local/201…

MIT engineers have developed a flexible drug-delivery patch that can be placed on the heart after a heart attack to help promote healing and regeneration of cardiac tissue. news.mit.edu/2025/new-patch…

MIT researchers have figured out why some cancer treatment drugs don’t work in all cases. Many tumors turn on a backup survival pathway that helps them keep growing when the targeted pathway is knocked out. news.mit.edu/2026/study-rev…

Batteries that use solids as their charge-carrying electrolyte could potentially be a safer and far more energy-dense alternative to lithium-ion batteries. However, these solid-state batteries have been plagued by metallic cracks which cause them to short circuit. But now, research from MIT could finally help engineers find a way to get past this hurdle. news.mit.edu/2026/why-solid…