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PhD student Sarah Nyquist applies computational methods to understudied areas of reproductive health, such as the cellular composition of breast milk. Sarah Nyquist got her first introduction to biology during high school, when she took an online MIT course taught by genomics pioneer Eric Lander. Initially unsure what to expect, she quickly discovered biology to…

A technique for labeling and retrieving DNA data files from a large pool could help make DNA data storage feasible.  On Earth right now, there are about 10 trillion gigabytes of digital data, and every day, humans produce emails, photos, tweets, and other digital files that add up to another 2.5 million gigabytes of data.…

Image: courtesy of the researchers DELPHI, an artificial intelligence framework, can give an "early-alert" signal for future key technologies by learning from patterns gleaned from previous scientific publications. An artificial intelligence framework built by MIT researchers can give an “early-alert” signal for future high-impact technologies, by learning from patterns gleaned from previous scientific publications. In…