Healthy Living

Every day, MIT researchers are revolutionizing the world of medicine, helping us to better understand and address the diseases and genetic conditions that have impacted human life since the beginning of time. Through the licensing and protection of these innovations, TLO supports researchers and startups in breaking down traditional barriers so that health concerns can be detected earlier and less invasive treatments are provided faster. This results in a dramatic increase in both survival rates and quality of life for millions of individuals.

What This Looks Like in Practice

• Convenience-sized RNA editing: Allowing for precise, guided cuts to strands of RNA to diagnose, detect, and potentially treat a host of diseases.
• Activity-sensing digital fibers: Used in clothing for physical performance monitoring, medical inference, and early disease detection.
• Wearable, portable ultrasound scanner: Allowing more frequent monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer, and potentially many more types of cancer.

Imagine you could have an RNA gene therapy, and when you take it, it modifies your RNA, but when you stop taking it, that modification stops. This is really just the beginning of enabling that tool set. ”