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Since an MIT team introduced expansion microscopy in 2015, the technique has powered the science behind kidney disease, plant seeds, the microbiome, Alzheimer’s, viruses, and more.

The technology, which achieves single-cell resolution, could help in continuous, noninvasive patient assessment to guide medical treatments.

The interfacial engineering expert and prolific entrepreneur will help faculty and students take breakthroughs from lab to market.

By changing how atoms in a molecule are arranged relative to each other, Associate Professor Alison Wendlandt aims to create compounds with new chemical properties.

CAMP4 Therapeutics is targeting regulatory RNA, whose role in gene expression was first described by co-founder and MIT Professor Richard Young.

Professor Craig Carter’s precision design for a student-led project now on the moon, encodes messages from around the world on a silicon wafer.

These bacteria, which could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, could act as sensors to help farmers monitor their crops.

The undergraduate lab’s first microscope competition highlights stunning images and student ingenuity.

Scaling up nanoparticle production could help scientists test new cancer treatments.