4 d. ago MIT researchers develop AI tool to improve flu vaccine strain selection

VaxSeer uses machine learning to predict virus evolution and antigenicity, aiming to make vaccine selection more accurate and less reliant on guesswork.

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1 week ago Materials Research Laboratory: Driving interdisciplinary materials research at MIT

The MRL helps bring together academia, government, and industry to accelerate innovation in sustainability, energy, and advanced materials.

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2 w. ago Researchers glimpse the inner workings of protein language models

A new approach can reveal the features AI models use to predict proteins that might make good drug or vaccine targets.

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2 w. ago Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug

The team used two different AI approaches to design novel antibiotics, including one that showed promise against MRSA.

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3 w. ago Jessika Trancik named director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center

Trancik will lead multidisciplinary research center focused on the high-impact, complex, sociotechnical systems that shape our world.

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3 w. ago 3 Questions: Measuring the financial impact of design in the built environment

A new book, “Value of Design,” serves as a tribute to the late MIT research scientist Andrea Chegut, whose work linked the economics of innovation to real estate finance and development.

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