The new MIT Museum is opening its doors in the heart of Cambridge’s Kendall Square. “We’re taking MIT’s great mission and making it more accessible to the wider community,” says John Durant. “The museum is all about turning MIT inside out.”

In a new book, Kieran Setiya “aims to show how living well and hardship can go together.” The Economist notes: “Attentive readers of this humane, intelligent book will come away with a firmer grasp and better descriptions of whatever it is that ails them.”

​​Diabetes is prominent on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, where Payton Dupuis grew up. Now on a path toward biomedical research, she gained both experience and confidence as a visiting student in the MSRP-Bio program at MIT this summer.

A new capsule can help drugs like insulin become absorbed in the digestive tract, so they don’t need to be injected. The capsule has a spinning robotic cap that tunnels through the mucus barrier lining the small intestine, allowing drugs to pass into cells beneath.

Richard Hynes, a pioneer in studying cellular adhesion, has received the 2022 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Hynes was honored for the discovery of integrins, proteins that are key to cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions in the body.

The MIT Museum reopens this weekend in its new location in Kendall Square, which GBH calls “quite significant because this is the heart of innovation.” Visitors will get a sense of MIT’s long history of innovation and a feel for the scientific process.