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MIT research shows that in people carrying the APOE4 risk variant, a key brain cell type mismanages cholesterol needed to insulate neurons properly — another sign that APOE4 contributes to Alzheimer's disease by disrupting lipids in the brain.
Researchers have harnessed a pooled, image-based screening method to probe the functions of over 5,000 essential genes in human cells.
Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) created a system called MuscleRehab for visualizing muscle engagement and motion data during unsupervised physical rehabilitation.
Researchers at SMART developed a rapid, point-of-care test kit for detecting the levels of neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19, paving the way for personalized vaccination strategies depending on their variance in antibody levels and immune response.
As an MSRP-Bio student this past summer in the MIT lab of Matt Vander Heiden, Alejandra Rosario worked to understand cancer metabolism. MSRP-Bio is a summer program intended to introduce non-MIT undergraduates to a research career.