On March 21, 2024, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) announced the world’s first successful transplant of a pig kidney into a 62-year-old man with end-stage kidney disease.
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Stevens prides itself on being an institution that encourages entrepreneurship alongside education, exciting many prospective and current students with the opportunity to pursue their passion project as a business in the future.
In a rare seismic event, the Northeast United States experienced one of its strongest earthquakes in a century, sending some concern across New York City.
Today’s turtles are smaller than humans, but only 9,000 years ago, turtles the size of couches inhabited much of the Brazilian Amazon.
People with allergies may soon be able to alleviate their symptoms, like congestion or itchy skin, thanks to recent studies revealing that immune cells are responsible for allergies persisting long-term.
In a paper published in Science on February 1, 2024, researchers at New York University report that AI can use the fragmented experiences of a child to discern pieces of information about the world around it, such as learning there is something called a crib, or matching words to images in a book.
On Thursday, January 18, a private spacecraft, whose destination was supposed to be the moon, ended up back on Earth after suffering from a propulsion malfunction.
On January 29, a new report from Nature Medicine stated that in five people who received contaminated injections of a growth hormone as children, researchers found that they developed Alzheimer’s disease unusually early.
Over the past couple years, Stevens has made huge strides in their research departments, with President Farvardin setting a goal for Stevens to become “a premier, student-centric, technological research university.”
Researchers at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital are finding that combining brain monitoring equipment with drug-dosing algorithms could one day help anesthesiologists give patients just the right dose of anesthetic to stay sedated for the duration of medical procedures.