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New capsule can orally deliver drugs that usually have to be injected
to those injections, MIT engineers, working with scientists from Novo Nordisk, have designed a new ... others in the future,” says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-capsule-can-orally-deliver-drugs-usually-have-be-injectedMaking data-informed Covid-19 testing plans
WhenToTest.org has been developed by MIT researchers with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), in ... researchers at IDSS, MIT, and beyond who apply advanced statistical tools to Covid-19 data in order to help ... Isolat research produced a number of tangible impacts, informing not only MIT’s reopening and testing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-data-informed-covid-19-testing-plansCancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests
A study from MIT now shows that tumor cells become much softer as they undergo this process. The findings ... Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and an author of the study. MIT graduate ... author. Other MIT authors include Peter So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cancer-cells-soften-they-metastasize-study-suggestsThe tenured engineers of 2021
The School of Engineering has announced that MIT has granted tenure to eight members of its ... Kulik, Elsa Olivetti, Alberto Rodriguez, James Swan. Photo Courtesy of MIT News. This year’s newly ... Computer Science and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, focuses his research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tenured-engineers-2021An all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment
stick with their treatment regimen. A team of MIT researchers has now come up with a new approach to ... the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... same needle. This could eventually make the process of managing diabetes even more streamlined. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/all-one-approach-diabetes-treatmentProfessor Emeritus Peter Griffith, a pioneer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, dies at 94
Peter "Pete" Griffith ScD ’56, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... a teaching fellow until that time. That same year, Griffith came to MIT and worked as a research assistant ... until 1954, when he became an instructor. In 1956, Griffith earned his ScD from MIT, where he then ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-peter-griffith-pioneer-heat-transfer-and-fluid-mechanics-dies-94“In everything I do, I’m a creator”
her interests now: “That definitely paved the way.” Untitled design (34).jpg An MIT senior ... by MechE- Gazdus, who created prints of these paintings of MIT campus scenes. “I’ll always be writing ... MIT by project classes such as 2.00B (Toy Design) and 2.008 (Design and Manufacturing). “It was so ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-everything-i-do-i%E2%80%99m-creator%E2%80%9DSoft optical fibers block pain while moving and stretching with the body
Scientists have a new tool to precisely illuminate the roots of nerve pain. Engineers at MIT have ... 1024NoPainFibers-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have designed a soft hydrogel optical fiber (shown illuminated) that stimulates ... University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who carried out part of the work as a postdoc at MIT. “Our fibers can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-optical-fibers-block-pain-while-moving-and-stretching-bodyIngestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients
a sleep lab, hooked up to a variety of sensors and monitors. Researchers from MIT, Celero Systems, and ... Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... tract. Traverso is one of the senior authors of the study, along with Robert Langer, an MIT Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-electronic-device-detects-breathing-depression-patientsUnderstanding the impact of deep-sea mining
mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an ... demand due to energy storage,” says Richard Roth, director of MIT’s Materials Systems Laboratory. While ... receiving seed funding from MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), Peacock was able to apply his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-miningA data-driven response to a pandemic
elections — and has raised difficult questions about MIT’s capacity to reopen in the fall. To help ... policymakers at MIT and beyond make informed decisions, the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) has ... information to impact policymaking.” The I DS S C O VID-19 col la bor at ion (Isolat) consists of MIT faculty, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-response-pandemicPanel addresses technologies needed for a net-zero future
Five speakers at a recent public panel discussion hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and ... engineering at MIT, moderated the panel discussion. She said that achieving the ambitious net-zero goal “has ... these needs, she said the five topics chosen for the panel discussion were “places where MIT has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/panel-addresses-technologies-needed-net-zero-futureA closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy
chemotherapy they receive. To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with an ... 1024-Closed-Loop-Chemo-01-press_0.jpg To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with a way to continuously ... engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closed-loop-drug-delivery-system-could-improve-chemotherapyDesigning off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya
refrigeration. To address this challenge, an MIT research team funded by a 2019 seed grant from the Abdul Latif ... MIT principal investigators are leading this effort: Leon Glicksman, professor of building technology ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the faculty director for research at MIT D-Lab; and Eric Verploegen, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-grid-refrigeration-technologies-crop-storage-kenyaTough New Hydrogel Hybrid Doesn’t Dry Out
Now engineers at MIT have found a way to prevent hydrogels from dehydrating, with a technique that ... Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, devised a method to robustly bind ... with biological functions,” Zhao says. The paper’s lead author is MIT graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tough-new-hydrogel-hybrid-doesn%E2%80%99t-dry-outEngineers design color-changing compression bandage
condition. Now engineers at MIT have developed pressure-sensing photonic fibers that they have woven into ... around a patient’s leg. color-changing compression_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT have developed ... of mechanical engineering at MIT. “These fibers can provide information about the pressure that the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-color-changing-compression-bandageSun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce ... a postdoc at MIT. “You could scale this up to something that could be used in remote climates to generate ... the lab of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT. A clever ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamStudents present mechanical engineering projects that have global impact
participating in poster sessions for the first time, the events can be daunting. RS3592_2019 MERE 1024.jpg MIT ... Engineers (GAME) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are working to remove the intimidation ... the Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE), which was held on Oct. 11 in MIT’s student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-mechanical-engineering-projects-have-global-impactFor cheaper solar cells, thinner really is better
researchers at MIT and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have outlined a pathway to slashing ... detailed in a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, co-authored by MIT postdoc Zhe Liu, ... professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT and NREL. The researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cheaper-solar-cells-thinner-really-betterNew model of the GI tract could speed drug development
MIT engineers have devised a way to speed up the development of new drugs by rapidly testing how ... engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Many of the drugs that are being ... Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, are the ...
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