Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

A new way of imaging the brain with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) does not directly detect neural activity as originally reported, according to scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. The…

Hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, is associated with numerous diseases including cancer, heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes. Certain tumors grow very rapidly in hypoxic environments and the ability to identify such tumors could be extremely…

The National Institutes of Health and the higher education non-profit VentureWell have selected 10 winners and five honorable mentions of the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge, who are set to receive prizes…

A man walking around a room wearing a helmet that records his brain function would have seemed like science fiction five years ago. Now researchers have designed a lightweight helmet with tiny LEGO-size sensors that scan the brain while…

Cancer immunotherapy—a type of treatment that enlists our own immune cells to attack tumors—has revolutionized the way that many types of cancer are treated. One type of immunotherapy under investigation uses natural killer cells, a type…