Yeast are the workhorses of the biopharmaceutical industry, producing billions of dollars of protein drugs every year. Now a new AI model can optimize the genetic sequences of proteins manufactured by yeast, making their production more efficient.
MechE student Kiyoko “Kik” Hayano’s path — from Wyoming to MIT to Arkansas via D-Lab — reflects a common trajectory of U.S. innovation: talent emerging from rural places, developing on the nation’s campuses, and returning know-how to its heartland.
In the latest episode of the Curiosity Unbounded podcast, President Sally Kornbluth speaks with MIT Sloan economist Emil Verner about why financial crises happen and what such crises mean for individual financial stability.
The U.S. is the world’s largest importer of steel, but a new approach could reduce its reliance on imports: Hertha Metals, founded by Laureen Meroueh SM ’18, PhD ’20, is using natural gas and electricity to produce cost-competitive steel in Texas.
To design the torch for the 2026 Olympics and Paralympics, Carlo Ratti followed the advice he gives his students: “It is about what the object or the design is to convey,” he says. “How it can touch people, how it can relate to people, how it can transmit emotions.”
In a world without MIT, radar wouldn’t have been available to help win World War II. We might not have email, CT scans, time-release drugs, photolithography, or GPS. And we’d lose over 30,000 companies, employing millions of people. Can you imagine?
Since its founding, MIT has been key to helping American science and innovation lead the world. Discoveries that begin here generate jobs and power the economy — and what we create today builds a better tomorrow for all of us.