The MIT group measured skin and lung cells from 2-month-old and 26-month-old mice both ways at once, using the destructive sequencing read to label the optical one. Human tissue, the authors say, is next.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives58
- Confidence62
Migraine with aura has been tied to higher stroke and heart attack risk for years without anyone showing how. Four newly funded projects go after the cell biology, and the flagship one starts in the laboratory.
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- Evidence42
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives72
- Confidence52
Existing 2D/3D registration models align well for some patients and fail for others. MIT's xvr, out today in Nature, fits itself to one patient in about five minutes, then matches that patient's X-rays to their 3D scan in seconds.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
A handheld ultrasound guide built for Army medics has left MIT Lincoln Laboratory for a company staffed by engineers who designed it, and the Federal Laboratory Consortium is giving that handoff its 2026 transfer prize.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
The atlas turns kinase-inhibitor selection into a matching problem. What is missing is evidence that the match predicts which drug works in a patient.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives68
- Confidence45