CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 28 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A high-fat diet sets off metabolic dysfunction in cells, leading to weight gain Consuming a high-fat diet can lead to a variety of health problems -- not only weight gain but also an increased risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases. At the cellular level, hundreds of changes take place in response to a high-fat diet. MIT researchers have now mapped out some of those changes, w  more

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, May 28 [Category: BizEngineering] -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, posted the following news: * * * Alex Levy Awarded 2025 ICOET Legacy Award The International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET) awarded Alex Levy, VHB Ecology Practice Lead, the 2025 Legacy Award in honor of his more than 35 years of leadership in transportation ecology and 24 years   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 28 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * An anomaly detection framework anyone can use Sarah Alnegheimish's research interests reside at the intersection of machine learning and systems engineering. Her objective: to make machine learning systems more accessible, transparent, and trustworthy. Alnegheimish is a PhD student in Principal Research Scientist Kalyan Veeramachaneni's Data-to-AI group in MIT's Laboratory for Info  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 28 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT D-Lab students design global energy solutions through collaboration This semester, MIT D-Lab students built prototype solutions to help farmers in Afghanistan, people living in informal settlements in Argentina, and rural poultry farmers in Cameroon. The projects span continents and collectively stand to improve thousands of lives -- and they all trace back to two longstanding MI  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 28 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT mechanical engineering course invites students to "build with biology" MIT course 2.797/2.798 (Molecular Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics) teaches students about the role that mechanics plays in biology, with a focus on biomechanics and mechanobiology: "Two words that sound similar, but are actually very different," says Ritu Raman, the Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of  more

BEDFORD, Massachusetts, May 28 [Category: BizConsulting] (TNSrpt) -- MITRE, a company that advances national security and serve the public interest as an independent adviser, posted the following news release: * * * Post-Quantum Cryptography Coalition Unveils PQC Migration Roadmap McLean, Va., and Bedford, Mass., May 28, 2025 - The Post-Quantum Cryptography Coalition (PQCC) released its Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Migration Roadmap (link is external) to assist organizations of all sizes   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 28 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Rationale engineering generates a compact new tool for gene therapy Scientists at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have re-engineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme they found in bacteria into an efficient, programmable editor of human DNA. The protein they created, called NovaIscB, can be adapted to make precise changes to th  more