Scientists at MIT and Stanford have unveiled a promising new way to help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells more effectively. Their strategy targets a hidden “off switch” that tumors ...

Abstract: Collaborative and mobile robotics for industrial environments promise to enable autonomous and flexible production processes. However, this vision also poses significant challenges to the ...

Encouraging the liver to generate certain signals normally produced by the thymus can help counteract age-related reductions in T-cell numbers and improve how well the immune system responds to ...

Abstract: The distributed identification of network systems under local observation has recently become one of the research hot spots. Due to the unobservable influence of other subsystems and the ...

Authorities said on Dec. 16 that they launched a homicide investigation after a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old ...

MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed two days ago. He lead the MIT Plasma Science Department and was working with Commonwealth fusion. Commonwealth Fusion is one of the leading nuclear ...