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Appears in 13 stories · Last updated Nov 8, 2026
Led the study
MIT researchers have found a way to turn a patient's own natural killer (NK) immune cells into cancer-fighting cells without removing them. The technique uses lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to deliver messenger RNA (mRNA) that instructs the cells to build chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), the targeting proteins used in CAR T therapies.
Updated 3 days ago
Developer of the LUCID device
Glioblastoma kills most patients within about 15 months of diagnosis. Surgery removes the main tumor, but stray cells left behind usually regrow nearby.
Updated Oct 28
Developer of HardFlow
A robot path that is nearly collision-free still crashes. MIT researchers built an algorithm, called HardFlow, that makes generative AI obey nonnegotiable limits on its final output without retraining the model.
Updated Oct 24
Institution publishing the research
MIT researchers have built a model called CLaC that reads a crystal's three-dimensional atomic arrangement alongside text descriptions. Their paper appeared in Nature Communications on August 26, and MIT News described the work on October 18.
Updated Oct 23
Origin of the technology
In 2017, a man with Parkinson's disease drew a shaky spiral on a stage at MIT's Kresge Auditorium. He put on a wristband built by students in MIT's product-design class, pressed a button, and drew a much steadier spiral to applause. Nine years later, that class project is an FDA-cleared medical device.
Updated Oct 18
Co-led the ice-cliff study
A survey of 15,330 ice cliffs in Antarctica and Greenland found that tall cliffs break apart faster than ice-sheet models assume, then stop retreating. MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers published the results in Science on October 15, 2026.
Updated Oct 17
As of October 2026: Co-developer of Ataraxos
An AI called Ataraxos beat the most decorated human Stratego player in history, four-time world champion Pim Niemeijer, by a margin of 15 wins, 1 loss, and 4 draws. It is the first superhuman result in the game's history, published September 30 in Nature.
Updated Oct 5
As of September 2026: Research institution behind the rhombohedral graphene experiments
MIT physicists have mapped two competing states of matter in ultra-clean rhombohedral graphene: pockets where resistance drops to zero, and adjacent pockets where it stubbornly saturates at a finite value no matter how cold the sample gets. The finite-resistance state reproduces the anomalous metal, a phenomenon seen in disordered thin-film superconductors for four decades but never explained.
Updated Sep 25
As of September 2026: Led the paleomagnetic study
Around 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system began as a cloud of gas and dust. Over a few million years it collapsed and flattened into a disk that gave rise to the sun and planets.
As of September 2026: Developer of the device
Standard cancer pathology has a built-in contradiction: tissue is bathed in chemical preservatives before analysis, and those chemicals kill the cells inside it. That leaves pathologists with a good look at dead cells and no way to test how a patient's living cancer responds to drugs.
Updated Sep 24
As of September 2026: Developed the bioresorbable battery in its mechanical engineering department
MIT researchers have built a battery from magnesium, molybdenum, cellulose, and beeswax that powers ingestible medical devices for three days, then dissolves into compounds the body absorbs. It is the first bioresorbable battery with enough power for clinically relevant functions.
Updated Sep 21
As of May 2026: Published consciousness research roadmap
Scientists studying the deep brain faced these limitations: transcranial magnetic stimulation reaches only 2-4 centimeters below the skull, functional MRI shows correlation not causation, and deep brain stimulation requires opening the skull. Transcranial focused ultrasound sends acoustic waves through intact bone to reach regions as small as a few millimeters—deeper and more precisely than any previous noninvasive method.
Updated May 27
As of May 2026: Community impacted by professor’s killing; case now being reviewed for potential connection to Brown shooting
Brown's Dec. 13 shooting evolved from a campus lockdown into an extended manhunt. Gunfire killed two students—Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov—and wounded nine others; the initially detained suspect was released, and investigators have used residential and vehicle-camera footage to track the shooter's movements.
Updated May 15
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