Omar Abudayyeh ’12, PhD ’18 was highly involved in early CRISPR development for DNA & RNA editing. He's continued to make new discoveries in this field as an affiliate of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
July 18, 2024 Startup aims to flush away the problem of icky toilet seatsCleana, founded by a team including Richard Li SM ’24, has developed a self-lifting toilet seat to improve bathroom sanitation.
July 17, 2024 Creating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible wayCSAIL researchers & Prof. Tedrake helped design a new technique that can guarantee the stability of robots controlled by neural networks which could eventually lead to safer autonomous vehicles and industrial robots.
July 15, 2024 How to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployedResearchers led by Porf. Navid Azizan and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have developed a technique to estimate the reliability of AI foundation models before they are deployed to a specific task.
July 14, 2024 Soft biorobotic heart, computational fluid models, aid in evaluation of surgical techniques for Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defectTetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is a critical congenital heart defect. Babies born with ToF have four cardiac anomalies: an enlarged right ventricle, a hole in the wall separating the right from the left...