Read article – Quotes Joseph Rosen, professor of surgery and adjunct professor and senior lecturer of engineering, about the rapid manufacturing time of a customizable vaccine developed by MIT engineers may be especially effective to fight influenza. “This could not only be applicable to the bugs they talked about, but could also be applicable for something even more important, which is an unknown virus,” noted Rosen. “In response to a pandemic, whether natural, accidental or intentional, they could produce a vaccine in a week.”

Read article – Quotes Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, about how he and additional researchers at Dartmouth are experimenting with virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift to see if simulated environments can break the monotony of space. “I wanted to focus on many of the issues that would serve as a barrier to long duration spaceflight,” says Buckey. “The psychosocial adaptation element is crucial to a good mission.”

Read article – Quotes Richard Chou, assistant professor of medicine, about a recent study he led that found a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis—an injectable drug called etanercept—may have benefits against Alzheimer’s disease.

Watch story – Features a new study led by David Bzik, professor of microbiology and immunology, that has “identified which parasite proteins and which immunological pathways are required to break [this] immune tolerance.”

Listen here – As a guest on “Going for Gold,” Elizabeth Talbot, associate professor of medicine, discusses the many issues facing Rio as the Olympics arrive. (Talbot’s comments begin at approximately 15:00.)

Read article – Cites a study led by Kris Bujarski, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, that assessed social cognition in 43 people with focal epilepsy and 22 healthy controls and found that people with epilepsy had no difficulty identifying positive emotions, but that they found it more difficult to pinpoint negative emotions such as anger, fear and disgust.

Read article – Quotes Elijah Stommel, professor of neurology, who is working with Applied GeoSolutions of Newmarket to study possible environmental links to ALS, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease, by using satellite technology and onsite water testing.