Engineers have created a coin‑sized implant that Daniel Anderson says “is always ready to protect patients from low blood sugar.” It senses low glucose, heats a shape‑memory alloy, and releases glucagon - stabilizing blood sugar within 10 minutes.
A new bionic knee outperforms other prostheses in helping people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster, climb stairs, and avoid obstacles. In a small clinical study, users navigated more easily and said the limb felt more like part of their body.
Last year, airports nationwide began adopting HEXWAVE — a commercialized walkthrough security screening system based on microwave imaging technology developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory — to satisfy a new TSA mandate for enhanced screening.
While lanthanides are commonly used in fertilizers, little is known about how exactly they benefit plants. New insights could help farmers optimize their use, increasing critical crops’ resilience to UV stress and enhancing seedling growth.
Sabrina Corsetti builds photonic devices that manipulate light to enable the previously unimaginable, like pocket-sized 3D printers. The EECS PhD student says the ability to work on projects with real-world impact “is primarily what drew me to MIT.”
In a world without MIT, radar wouldn’t have been available to help win World War II. We might not have email, CT scans, time-release drugs, photolithography, or GPS. And we’d lose over 30,000 companies, employing millions of people. Can you imagine?
Since its founding, MIT has been key to helping American science and innovation lead the world. Discoveries that begin here generate jobs and power the economy — and what we create today builds a better tomorrow for all of us.