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Patches to the rescue

Patches to the rescue

Patches stuck to the skin can be an appealing alternative to injections, pills, and other ways of getting medicines into the body. Two MIT gro...

A silky solution to seed counterfeiting

A silky solution to seed counterfeiting

Counterfeit seeds can cost farmers more than two-thirds of expected crop yields. Now an MIT team may have found a way to outwit fakers: tiny t...

A simple urine test for low-cost cancer diagnosis

A simple urine test for low-cost cancer di...

A nanoparticle sensor developed by Professor Sangeeta Bhatia, SM ’93, PhD ’97, and colleagues including former MIT postdoc Liangliang Hao, now...

Recent books from the MIT community

Recent books from the MIT community

A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and DiseaseBy Shilpa Ravella ’03 W.W. NORTON & CO., 2022, $30 The Transcendent Brain: Spir...

Becoming superheroes, together

Becoming superheroes, together

I often explain the concept of structural inequality using the example of MIT’s bathrooms. Though the Institute never explicitly banned women,...

Nevada financial regulator petitions court to place Prime Trust into receivership

Nevada financial regulator petitions court...

The filing suggested Prime Trust had financial liabilities to its users totaling more than $82 million in fiat and $800,000 in crypto.

New exchange EDX reportedly switching out Paxos’ custody services for Anchorage’s

New exchange EDX reportedly switching out ...

The new exchange does not custody customer funds itself to avoid a conflict of interest — and a hot-button issue with the SEC.

Bitfinex launches P2P trading platform in Venezuela, Argentina and Colombia

Bitfinex launches P2P trading platform in ...

The launch announcement followed expansion moves by Bitfinex into El Salvador and Chile through licensing and partnerships, respectively.

New Web3 ID app lets users find each other based on proven interests

New Web3 ID app lets users find each other...

Quivr allows users to connect multiple apps, including Spotify, Steam and Instagram, to generate behavior-based badges proving their interests.