Anne Trafton

1. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Anne Trafton

   Taking your temperature from the inside (opens the original)

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   Oral and forehead thermometers may not accurately capture a person’s core body temperature, and the few ingestible temperature sensors on the market are so big they are hard to swallow and risk obstructing the GI tract. But MIT engineers created one that can send continuous temperature updates at a size of just six by four millimeters. To create it, the researchers built a circuit that can fit on a one-square-­millimeter silicon chip and designed an oscillator based on leakage current—the small

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2. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Anne Trafton

   Amping up T cells to target cancer (opens the original)

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   Vaccines that turn the body’s immune system against tumors have shown promise in clinical trials, and a handful have been FDA approved for certain cancers. In many patients, however, these vaccines don’t stimulate enough of a response, and the approach some researchers have taken to strengthening it—delivering the vaccine along with immune-stimulating molecules called cytokines—can cause severe side effects. Now MIT chemical engineer Daniel Anderson and colleagues at MIT, Harvard, and the Univer

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