Tech for society + new gene-editing tool + Cherokee innovation

Known as PASTE, the technique holds potential for treating a variety of diseases caused by faulty genes.

At an MIT event, speakers profiled four Cherokee innovators and traced their success back to the communal and egalitarian culture they came from.

Hackathon explores policy solutions focused on post-pandemic efforts to build a better society.

A new exhibit at the MIT Museum, “To Look and Learn: The Creative Photography Laboratory at MIT,” documents a “varied and vital visual era” at MIT. One legacy of MIT’s Creative Photography Laboratory is “the tradition of rewarding photography shows at the MIT Museum. ‘To Look and Learn’ is the latest example.”

A new study by MIT scientists explores the role of the gene variant APOE4 in Alzheimer’s and finds that the gene is linked with faulty cholesterol processing in the brain, impacting the insulation around nerve cells and potentially causing memory and learning deficits. “The work suggests that drugs that restore the brain’s cholesterol processing could treat the disease.”