News & Updates

MIT junior faculty explore new research directions and achieve powerful career advancement enabled by J-WAFS’ mission-driven grant program focused on water and food solutions.

Trained dogs can detect cancer and other diseases by smell. A miniaturized detector can analyze trace molecules to mimic the process.

MIT researchers are developing a superconducting nanowire, which could enable more efficient superconducting electronics.

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PhD student and 2017 J-WAFS graduate fellow Tzu-Chieh Tang designs living materials to solve environmental challenges, with an emphasis on safety and scalability.

Unconventional form of ferroelectricity could impact next-generation computing.

New technique reveals many possible conformations that a protein may take.

Cutting edge-tool reserved exclusively for students is fast, efficient, and environmentally friendly.

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Case’s new lab investigates why cancer arises when disruptions in cellular organization change how cells sense mechanical forces.

Biological sensors developed by MIT spinout Glympse Bio could help clinicians make decisions for individual patients.

The patch, which can be folded around surgical tools, may someday be used in robotic surgery to repair tissues and organs.