Using machine learning to estimate risk of cardiovascular death
CSAIL system uses a patient's ECG signal to estimate potential for cardiovascular death.
Making sense of medical sensors
Computer scientists and electrical engineers are devising algorithms that look for useful new patterns in data produced by medical sensors.
Students have engineering on the brain
MIT class offers student teams a chance to create business ventures based on neurotechnology research.
Practicing medicine at the nanoscale
New approaches to drug delivery offer hope for new, more targeted treatments.
Sterilizing with the sun
Solar concentrating system could replace fuel-powered or electric devices in remote villages.
Bringing a new perspective to infectious disease
Enlisted in the fight against HIV, MIT engineers and scientists contribute new technology, materials and computational studies.
MIT students create new medical devices
Precision machine design class links doctors with students to find ways of meeting pressing medical needs for new technology.
Big medical data
At the intersection of medicine and computer science, researchers look for clinically useful correlations amid mountains of information.
Tiny tools help advance medical discoveries
MIT researchers are designing tools to analyze cells at the microscale.
The health-insurance markets of the (very near) future
Policymakers must address ‘tension’ between competition and ease of use.
Tissue engineering: Growing new organs, and more
Research could lead to better ways to heal injuries and develop new drugs.