CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, The Engine, the venture firm spun out of MIT that invests in early-stage Tough Tech companies solving the world’s most urgent problems, announced the ...

Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, and Arup Chakraborty earn MIT’s highest faculty honor. Arup K. Chakraborty and Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, have been named Institute Professors, the highest honor for MIT ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s first-ever vice president for equity and inclusion announced his resignation on Friday, according to an internal message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month announced that it has bestowed its highest honor to two chemical engineers, including Indian American Arup Chakraborty. Chakraborty, along with ...

In this year’s STAT Madness, a bracket-style competition to honor the best in recent biomedical research, each finalist exploited carbon nanotubes to tackle one of the two leading causes of death in ...

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we treat hundreds of genetic diseases. By fine-tuning the tiny molecular “tools ...

After over a year of disputes, the Broad Institute—a genetics research center affiliated with Harvard and MIT—won the right to keep its patent for CRISPR, a groundbreaking gene-editing technology, in ...

A research institute backed by two of Massachusetts' most illustrious universities has joined the state effort to test patients for the coronavirus. The Broad Institute, founded in 2004 by MIT and ...