Biologists discovered a set of peptides found only in pancreatic tumors. “Pancreas cancer is one of the most challenging cancers to treat. This study identifies an unexpected vulnerability in pancreas cancer cells that we may be able to exploit therapeutically,” Tyler Jacks says.
John Urschel spoke with the Guardian about leaving his career as a guard for the Baltimore Ravens to focus on his love of math at MIT: “I missed talking math with people, learning things, being around other people who like … math-related issues."
Andy Obst ’90 and his wife, Mary Anne, invent and manufacture medical devices for patients with hard-to-treat wounds. At MIT, he says, he learned “how to execute and just get the work done. If there was a deadline, you had to hit it.”
Canan Dagdeviren spoke with NBC Boston about her work on a wearable ultrasound scanner allowing earlier breast cancer detection. “Our hope [is to] collect a lot of data and use AI to predict what will happen to breast tissue over time,” she said.
Fyto helps farmers grow plant-based feed and fertilizer using wastewater. “People talk about the political divide,” says Valerie Peng ’17, SM ’19. But when it comes to making our food systems more resilient, “there’s more in common with everyone than you’d expect.”
Science Quickly host Rachel Feltman joined Vladimir Bulović, director of MIT.nano, on a tour of the facility’s nanoscale capabilities. Its tightly controlled clean room hosts research across fields from microelectronics to medical nanotechnology.
Economics PhD student Tishara Garg takes a novel approach to ambitious questions about big-push industrial policy — inspired, in part, by the diversity of opinions in her field at MIT. “Don’t shy from big questions,” she says. “Explore the big idea.”