Jacob Jaffe, MIT Political Science PhD candidate, conducts novel field experiments to gather highly detailed information on local, state, and federal elections and analyzes this trove with advanced statistical techniques. He hopes to help understand and improve the voting system in the United States, and ultimately boost voter confidence.
The disruption of gene transcription and cell function in Down syndrome is very similar to that seen in cellular aging, MIT scientists find. They used anti-senescence drugs to correct the errors in cell cultures, establishing senescence as a potentially targetable mechanism for future treatment.