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Researchers have developed a technique that could help fine-tune the production of monoclonal antibodies and other useful proteins.

MIT’s inaugural Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice conference explores video’s role in the struggle over truth and civil liberties.

A new approach sheds light on the behavior of turbulent structures that can affect the energy generated during fusion reactions, with implications for reactor design.

The valued mentor was known for research in intensity perception, hearing-impairment characterization, and aids for the deaf.

Professor Kripa Varanasi and his colleagues have founded Alsym Energy, a startup developing “a new kind of rechargeable battery that delivers the performance of lithium-ion cells at half the cost.”

C16 Biosciences, co-founded by MIT alumni, is developing a palm oil alternative called Palmless. “What we are building is a platform technology that can produce all different kinds of microbial oils,” explains David Heller ’18, C16 Biosciences co-founder and head of operations. “It’s definitely possible that we’re able to make other kinds of vegetable oil replacements in the future.”