By studying how M. tuberculosis interacts with the immune system, Bryan Bryson seeks vaccine targets to help eliminate TB. “Engineering and infectious disease go hand-in-hand, because engineers love a problem, and tuberculosis is a really hard problem,” he says.
“Steam is the most important working fluid ever,” Addison Stark SM ’10, PhD ’14 says. His startup AtmosZero has developed a modular heat pump that produces industrial steam, offering a drop-in electrical replacement for conventional combustion boilers.
MIT’s Warrior-Scholar Project STEM boot camp helps enlisted veterans and service members prepare for higher education. “It’s so inspiring to hear so many students at the end of the week say, ‘I never considered a place like MIT until the boot camp,’” Andrea Henshall says.
An ingestible “smart pill” uses radio frequency to communicate from the stomach when patients have taken their medications, the New York Post reports, noting that half of Americans with chronic conditions don’t take their medications as prescribed.
In the latest episode of the Curiosity Unbounded podcast, President Sally Kornbluth speaks with Sebastian Lourido about toxoplasmosis, how parasites behave inside human cells, and the complex relationships that unfold over the course of an infection.
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