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Breaking through the mucus barrier
a hospital. A new drug capsule developed at MIT may one day be able to replace those injections. The capsule ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... injected. Shriya Srinivasan, a research affiliate at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-mucus-barrierCreating “big, beautiful things”
a state-championship-winning robot. A1-MIT-Garrett-Parrish-1024.jpg “The whole goal of my life is to fix all the people ... power to influence that in a good way,” senior Garrett Parrish says. Photo: Ian MacLellan MIT was the ... a part of the MIT culture, and having the resources that are available here, are what really what opened ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-%E2%80%9Cbig-beautiful-things%E2%80%9DStudy finds cells take out the trash before they divide
MIT researchers have discovered that before cells start to divide, they do a little cleanup, ... functional contents,” says Teemu Miettinen, an MIT research scientist and the lead author of the new study. ... senior author of the paper, which appears today in eLife. MIT biological engineering undergraduates Kevin ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cells-take-out-trash-they-divideSolid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors
MIT_Cell-Fingerprints-01-PRESS_0.jpeg MIT researchers have developed a way to decode images of cells to determine whether a tissue is ... track various cancers. Photo credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute, edited by MIT News Now, ... researchers at MIT have found that the way in which a tissue’s cells are arranged can serve as a fingerprint ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solid-liquid-or-gas-technique-quickly-identifies-physical-state-tissues-and-tumorsEngineers develop surgical “duct tape” as an alternative to sutures
in many structural materials. MIT engineers have now developed a kind of surgical duct tape ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Surgeons could use it as they use duct tape in the ... journal Science Translational Medicine. Other co-authors include MIT postdoc and lead author Jingjing Wu; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-surgical-%E2%80%9Cduct-tape%E2%80%9D-alternative-suturesTackling poverty, one person at a time
When Staten Island-native Sarah Tress first arrived at MIT, she had never been outside of the ... working to reduce poverty, one person at a time. MIT-Student-Tress-01-10243.jpg Image: Melanie Gonick ... Tress began her studies at MIT on a premed track. However, a MISTI internship at a hospital in a poor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-poverty-one-person-timeThis touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli
to grasp a jar. And now engineers at MIT and elsewhere have a way to precisely measure and map such ... MIT-Touchy-Glove-02-PRESS.jpg An MIT team of engineers has designed a new touch-sensing glove that can “feel” pressure and other ... tactile dysfunction,” says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Fang and his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/touchy-feely-glove-senses-and-maps-tactile-stimuliStudent robot competition honors the legacy of the late beloved professor, Woodie Flowers
future engineers as a professor at MIT, a co-founder of the global FIRST Robotics Competition, and host ... shaped the engineering curriculum at MIT. In what was a radical educational method at the time, Flowers ... Woodie’s impact on education at MIT is the fact that we still use essentially the same format for 2.007 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-robot-competition-honors-legacy-late-beloved-professor-woodie-flowersMoving water and earth
flow can be off by a wide margin. An MIT team has come up with a better formula to calculate how much ... too unwieldy: How do you quantify a pebble’s contours? The MIT researchers found that instead of ... Qiong Zhang, Ken Kamrin, and Taylor Perron of MIT, and Jeremy Venditti and Ryan Bradley of Simon Fraser ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-water-and-earthWhen muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise ... Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “Maybe if we stimulate the ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Vincent Butty of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-muscles-work-out-they-help-neurons-grow-new-study-showsHow to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion
make the other part worse. Now, using nanoscale filtering membranes, researchers at MIT have added ... percent, they say. The new findings are reported today in the journal ACS Energy Letters, in a paper by MIT ... MIT-BetterC02-02-press1024x768.jpg Using nanoscale filtering membranes, researchers at MIT have added a simple intermediate step that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-solve-bottleneck-co2-capture-and-conversionOnce-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials
MIT researchers have developed a pill that can be taken just once a week and gradually releases ... medication from within the stomach. MIT-Schizophrenia-Trial-01-PRESS_1024x768.jpg The ingestible capsule is ... conducted by MIT spinout Lyndra Therapeutics, the researchers used the once-a-week pill to deliver a widely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/once-week-pill-schizophrenia-shows-promise-clinical-trialsProduction in the Innovation Economy
MIT Faculty See Promise in American Manufacturing Photo Credit: MIT News Office by Peter ... Dizikes, MIT News Office Not long ago, MIT political scientist and faculty member Suzanne Berger was ... That is the kind of problem Berger and 19 of her faculty colleagues at MIT, including Department Head ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/production-innovation-economyControlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact
pair of liquid and solid materials, but now MIT researchers have developed a way of making even the ... described this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), in a paper by MIT ... the particular liquid involved. MIT-Surface-Wettability-1024.jpg Researchers can now treat a surface ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-how-%E2%80%9Codd-couple%E2%80%9D-surfaces-and-liquids-interactEngineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”
Now MIT engineers have devised a new kind of wearable sensor that communicates wirelessly without ... mechanically vibrate in response to an electrical impulse. MIT-Chip-Free-Sensor-1024.jpg The device senses and ... include first author and former MIT postdoc Yeongin Kim, who is now an assistant professor at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-fabricate-chip-free-wireless-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9DNew test rapidly diagnoses Zika
MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection within 20 ... of the Zika virus that can produce false positives on many Zika tests. MIT-ZikaTest_1024.jpg “It’s ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Image courtesy of the researchers This test could offer an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-test-rapidly-diagnoses-zikaCell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs
a particular drug. This can lead to months of treatment with a drug that isn’t working. Researchers at MIT have ... how those patients actually fared when treated with those drugs. MIT-Treatment 1024.jpg Cells pass ... Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-weighing-method-could-help-doctors-choose-cancer-drugsEngineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves
predict. Now, MIT engineers have found a new way to model how waves break. The team used machine learning ... affiliate of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT. “It may sound like a detail, but if you ... important to climate prediction.” The study’s co-authors include lead author and MIT postdoc Debbie Eeltink, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-use-artificial-intelligence-capture-complexity-breaking-wavesAir pollution can put a dent in solar power
Ian Marius Peters, now an MIT research scientist, was working on solar energy research in ... citizens snapped them up to aid their breathing. MIT-Hazy-Photocells_1024.jpg Results have just been ... instruments, Peters worked with MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi and three ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/air-pollution-can-put-dent-solar-powerInflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
that can be heavy and rigid. Now engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “There’s huge potential to make ... include MIT postdoc Shaoting Lin, along with Guoying Gu, Xiangyang Zhu, and collaborators at Shanghai Jiao ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-robotic-hand-gives-amputees-real-time-tactile-control