​​Diabetes is prominent on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, where Payton Dupuis grew up. Now on a path toward biomedical research, she gained both experience and confidence as a visiting student in the MSRP-Bio program at MIT this summer.

A new capsule can help drugs like insulin become absorbed in the digestive tract, so they don’t need to be injected. The capsule has a spinning robotic cap that tunnels through the mucus barrier lining the small intestine, allowing drugs to pass into cells beneath.

Richard Hynes, a pioneer in studying cellular adhesion, has received the 2022 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Hynes was honored for the discovery of integrins, proteins that are key to cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions in the body.

The MIT Museum reopens this weekend in its new location in Kendall Square, which GBH calls “quite significant because this is the heart of innovation.” Visitors will get a sense of MIT’s long history of innovation and a feel for the scientific process.

Before babies learn to talk, it’s almost impossible to know what they’re thinking. Ashley Thomas, a cognitive scientist at MIT’s McGovern Institute, has begun to unlock the mystery of babies’ brains using a very unusual tool: puppets.

Guy Bresler works at the four-way intersection where theoretical computer science, statistics, probability, and information theory collide. At this juncture, “there are always opportunities for entirely new questions to ask,” he says.