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An MIT-developed vaccination card aims to cut through vaccine distribution chaos while preserving patient privacy.
Esvelt and Lipsitch lay out a path for slowing the spread of B.1.1.7, and ensuring that we're better prepared for future pandemics.
Designed for mass manufacture and rapid deployment, we are building an open hardware, reusable, sterilizable, modular, and filter-media agn…
Computational modeling yields a protein fragment that could bind to coronavirus spike proteins and destroy them.
P. Shah*, G. Yauney*, O. Gupta, V. Patalano II, M. Mohit, R. Merchant, SV Subramanian. BMJ Open (2018). 8:e018774. PMID: 29678964 * Equal contribution
Aman Rana, Yauney G, Lowe A, Shah P. IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (2018) (Conference acceptance rate: 14%). DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00133
Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology that …
Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: C…
Read the FAQ that accompanies the op-ed by Kevin Esvelt and Carolyn P. Neuhaus, which answers questions about the research they're proposing
We don’t know, but the idea is hardly crazy—and if the answer is yes, we could save many lives long before a vaccine arrives
Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these potenti…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the need for PPE, a diverse team came together to produce the "Open Standard Respirator, Model 1"
Alex Berke and Kent Larson, City Science group, MIT Media Lab (2020).
MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform work with the government of Sierra Leone to conduct rapid-response surveys.
Study cautions against using static org charts during COVID-19 crisis.
Kevin Esvelt and other experts talk to Axios about the risk of, and potential defenses against, engineered pathogens.
New issues in privacy debate with technology and contact-tracing.
Your phone soon might know if you have spent time near someone with the COVID-19 virus.
In April 2019, Shuguang Zhang's lab started to use the QTY code to design a class of water-soluble cytokine receptors, including interferon…
In collaboration with Prof. Tao Fei’s lab (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)In addition to a large number of membrane proteins that comp…
In collaboration with Prof. Horst Vogel and Dr. Horst Pick (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland).G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are vital for …
Structure and function studies of membrane proteins, particularly G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and multipass transmembrane proteins,…
Team designs antibody-like receptor proteins that can bind to cytokines, as possible strategy for treating coronavirus and other infections.
Researchers are racing to achieve the benefits of location-tracking without the surveillance.
“Data scientists and visualization designers need to take their civic role very seriously in a pandemic,” says the MIT assistant professor.
To help explain how this works is Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at MIT’s Media Lab.
The app is designed to let people discover if they've crossed paths with someone who's been infected with COVID-19.
A multinational team develops new tools to slow the spread of pandemics.
A system that enables smartphones to transmit “chirps” to nearby devices could notify people if they have been near an infected person.
SoapCam is a WIP Human Computer Interaction system that motivates proper hand washing routines."Hand hygiene is the most important measure …
A team from MIT has designed disposable face shields that can be mass produced quickly to address hospitals’ needs nationwide.
A variety of companies with MIT ties are working to address aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Private Kit: Safe Paths shares information about your movements in a privacy-preserving way—and could let health officials tackle COVID-19.
China, South Korea used smartphone apps to monitor people with the disease. Americans have different views of privacy and data collection.
The ability to think and act creatively is now more important than ever before.
With large-scale gatherings being put on-hold, it's proving time for digital engagement tech.
Opioid therapy is the cornerstone of management of pain in the ICU. However, opioids present numerous side effects and are highly addictive…
MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pred…
In the new study, PhD candidate Daniel Lopez-Martinez of MIT and colleagues used data from more than 40,000 hospitalizations
New Harvard-MIT deep reinforcement learning algorithm optimizes pain management.
The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroimp…
We present a review paper that analyzes how early design decisions can affect the regulatory approval process downstream.
Add deadly car crashes and food safety risks — and the officials overseeing them — to the list of things affected by climate change.
Effects of environmental stressors on daily governance, Nick Obradovich, Dustin Tingley, Iyad Rahwan Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2018, 201803765; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803765115
On excessively hot days, there are more likely to be fatal car accidents and food safety problems, and police officers and government food …
First, climate change was blamed for coastal flooding and wildfires. The links seemed intuitive and the effects observable. But more r…
If we are unable to adapt to climate change, it may amplify the marginal gap between citizen need and government assistance.
Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon at the Media Lab emphasizes social and political issues over engineering
We introduce a novel interactive method to assess cataracts in the human eye by crafting an optical solution that measures the perceptual i…