Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s first-ever vice president for equity and inclusion announced his resignation on Friday, according to an internal message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, The Engine, the venture firm spun out of MIT that invests in early-stage Tough Tech companies solving the world’s most urgent problems, announced the ...

MIT has become the latest in a string of elite American universities — including Harvard — to distance itself from the idea of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as President Donald Trump continues ...

Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, and Arup Chakraborty earn MIT’s highest faculty honor. Arup K. Chakraborty and Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, have been named Institute Professors, the highest honor for MIT ...

In this year’s STAT Madness, a bracket-style competition to honor the best in recent biomedical research, each finalist exploited carbon nanotubes to tackle one of the two leading causes of death in ...

After over a year of disputes, the Broad Institute—a genetics research center affiliated with Harvard and MIT—won the right to keep its patent for CRISPR, a groundbreaking gene-editing technology, in ...

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MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we treat hundreds of genetic diseases. By fine-tuning the tiny molecular “tools ...

Researchers developed a manufacturing technique that rapidly generates large quantities of nanoparticles coated with drug-delivering polymers, which hold great potential for treating cancer. The ...

Researchers say they have potentially developed a new, more convenient tests for the coronavirus that uses the genetic technology known as CRISPR and could produce results in less than an hour. The ...