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Using heritable DNA barcodes, Whitehead Institute researchers have traced the family histories of more than a million cells to reconstruct how a mouse embryo builds itself.
Engineers in MIT's Raman lab have built a biohybrid swimmer the size of a stick of gum, steered through water by light-activated muscle cells thinner than a human hair.
A Science study led from MIT's Koch Institute shows that ceramide lipids unleash a YAP-driven regenerative programme in metastatic cells, and that obesity may amplify the risk.
CrysVCD, a framework from MIT and collaborators, screens chemical validity into materials generation from the start, producing stable candidates about ten times more efficiently.
JWST observations led by MIT reveal MoM-BH*-1, an accreting black hole wrapped in a vast hydrogen envelope, a finding that may explain the puzzling little red dots of the early universe.
In genetically predisposed mice, a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet fuelled small-intestine tumours even without obesity, MIT researchers report in Nature, while colon tumours were suppressed.
New evidence for ephaptic coupling from the Picower Institute suggests the brain's fields are not mere by-products of spiking neurons but top-down signals that organise them.
MIT physicists find four superconducting states in rhombohedral graphene, including some that strengthen under magnetic fields that would normally destroy superconductivity.
A theory from MIT and Leicester predicts the severity of most mass extinctions in the fossil record, and carries a warning about the pace of today's ocean carbon rise.
An MIT-led team reports in Science a closed-loop process that pulls battery-grade lithium from spodumene without the conventional 1,000-degree bake, at roughly half the cost.
Gadolinium-packed nanoparticle sensors with gated water channels amplify molecular detection roughly tenfold, McGovern Institute researchers report in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
MIT engineers have built an ultra-efficient microchip that runs post-quantum cryptography on pacemakers and insulin pumps, with 20 to 60 times better energy efficiency than comparable schemes.
Rice seeds exposed to the underwater acoustics of rainfall germinated 30 to 40 percent faster, the first direct evidence that seeds perceive and respond to natural sound.
MIT Haystack researchers used GNSS signal delays from 13 stations on the Ross Ice Shelf to link a major 2016 surface melt to a fourfold spike in atmospheric turbulence.
Trained on more than 23,000 published synthesis routes, MIT's DiffSyn model proposes temperatures, times and precursors for target structures, and has already guided a new zeolite.
Using inverse design, MIT researchers shaped porous silicon so that heat flowing through it performs matrix calculations, reaching over 99 percent accuracy in simulations.
The first national, bottom-up accounting of carbonation finds US buildings and infrastructure reabsorb over 6.5 million tonnes of CO2 annually, about 13 percent of cement process emissions.
MIT's miBrains integrate neurons, glia and functioning vasculature in a dime-sized culture, and have already exposed how the APOE4 Alzheimer's risk gene misbehaves in context.