An MIT spinout is making surgical stitching more like applying tape: SanaHeal has developed a biologically compatible adhesive that sticks to wet tissues. Its product was inspired by sticky materials in nature, like barnacles and spider webs.
Weather forecasts beyond two weeks are notoriously unreliable — a challenge for energy operators, farmers, and emergency response officials. Now, with help from AI, a new technique significantly improves weather forecasting over the two-to-six-week time frame.
Robert E. Hall PhD ’67 and Michael Woodford PhD ’83 share this year’s Nobel prize in economics. The two MIT alumni were honored for work that illuminates how government policy can spur growth in response to economic downturns.
Addressing a national need, the MIT for America initiative ranges across STEM fields and will engage students from kindergarten through community college, preparing them to live and work in a world increasingly shaped by science and technology.
The startup Encora Therapeutics began as a project in 2.009, MIT’s iconic product-design class, to help people with Parkinson's disease. Now, nine years later, the FDA has cleared Encora’s device to help adults with essential tremor.
This fact sheet offers a high-level summary of the many steps MIT leaders have taken to support our vibrant Jewish community.
MIT’s vital research and education — on topics such as human health, energy innovation, quantum computing, and advanced manufacturing — continue to advance national security, economic competitiveness, and quality of life for all Americans.