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The MIT D-Lab-supported startup SurgiBox has developed a portable kit that doctors can use to create sterile operating environments where they’re needed most.

Associate Professor Jinhua Zhao studies how and why people move, and designs multi-modal mobility systems.

With full genetic control and visibility into neural activity and behavior, MIT scientists map out chemical’s role in behavior.

Drawing on her MIT education, the CEO of Main Street Landing in Burlington, Vermont, explores how use of space can create collective feelings of belonging.

Professor of the practice Bruce Walker and his colleagues have found that CD8+ T cells can allow HIV patients to control the virus without the use of medications. “About one in 300 people are able to control HIV without the need for medications,” says Walker. “[It appears] that it is the CD8+ T cell response that achieves this control.”