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Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread

also include undergraduate Emma Wang and professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis. ... Intelligence Advanced Research (Projects Activity (IARPA). Monday, December 14, 2020 Jennifer Chu | MIT News ... A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ...

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Noninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for people with diabetes

(LBRC) and an MIT professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering; and Youngkyu Kim and ... December 2, 2025 Anne Trafton | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal Noninvasive imaging could replace finger ... A noninvasive method for measuring blood glucose levels, developed at MIT, could save diabetes ...

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Protecting maternal health in Rwanda

PhD '02, research scientist in mechanical engineering at MIT and technology lead for the team. ... MIT, Harvard University, and Partners in Health (PIH) in Rwanda have proposed a solution to address ... a new MIT student from Rwanda and would later join Fletcher’s team at MIT. With Fletcher’s mentorship, ...

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A graphene roll-out

MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ... who is now at Caltech; and Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... to commercialization.” Monday, April 16, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal ...

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This ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs

MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs ... engineering at MIT. “With this wearable sticker, we can continuously monitor changes in rigidity over long ... Health. Thursday, February 8, 2024 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal Professor Xuanhe Zhao and his team ...

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Eldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall

urgent societal issue. To help address the eldercare challenge, a team of MIT engineers is looking to ... Engineering at MIT. “Our design concept is to provide older adults having balance impairment with robotic ... Bolli, a graduate student in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. “All the demographic trends ...

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Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers  Now, a new AI tool developed by MIT engineers could help clear the ... engineering at MIT. “Then you can use SpectroGen to generate the rest. And this could improve productivity, ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool ...

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“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them

surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... L. Chandler | MIT News Office orange kripa@mit.edu Horizontal Professor Kripa Varanasi has developed ... Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control ...

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Breaking through the mucus barrier

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... the National Institutes of Health and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors of the ... Fitzgerald, and Robert Langer. Tuesday, September 27, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration ...

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Technique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold

a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT and first author of the paper. In 2007, researchers first ... an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the ... January 30, 2019 Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent Collaboration Horizontal A technique developed by ...

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Alumni Profile: RJ Scaringe SM ’07, PhD ‘09

sustainability.   Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... a journey that has its roots in MIT’s Sloan Automotive Lab, where Scaringe conducted his master’s and ... compression ignition engines, an internal combustion engine with low emissions. “RJ was a low key but ...

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New electroadhesive hydrogel may be used to deliver sustained drug administration for GI diseases

peeled off,” says Ying.  Collaborating researchers from the MIT Mechanical Engineering department include ... e-GLUE first came about when Binbin Ying, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering ... polymers, thereby creating a dual-layer ionic hydrogel.   At MIT, Ying and his colleagues, including ...

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A new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces

MIT-Dew-Omniphobicity-1024.jpg This photo shows water droplets placed on the nanostructured surface developed by MIT researchers. ... with a specially designed shape. Images by Kyle Wilke Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to ... a paper by graduate student Kyle Wilke, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ...

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A light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide, study finds

Using high-resolution imaging, researchers from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering observed the ... nucleation.” Monday, March 6, 2017 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office International Horizontal Global precipitation ... A good rain can have a cleansing effect on the land. But an MIT study published today in Nature ...

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Ingestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients

Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... November 16, 2023 Anne Trafton | MIT News Horizontal Diagnosing disorders such as sleep apnea usually ... a sleep lab, hooked up to a variety of sensors and monitors. Researchers from MIT, Celero Systems, and ...

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Ingestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month

MIT engineers have designed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the stomach, ... Xuanhe Zhao, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Zhao and senior collaborator Giovanni ... Gates Foundation. Tuesday, January 29, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal ...

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Meet the 2023-24 Accenture Fellows

Accenture Fellows advance technology at the crossroads of business and society The MIT and ... collaborate to spur technological innovation. Through its partnership with the School of Engineering ... business, and technology. Michelle Vaccaro is a PhD candidate in social engineering systems whose research ...

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Deep-learning technique reveals “invisible” objects in the dark

impossible to decipher. But now, engineers at MIT have developed a technique that can reveal these ... left to image,” says George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “When it comes to ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor George Barbastathis trained a computer to recognize ...

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Immune action at a distance

Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. “Now, with ... MIT-Koch-Institute-Traverso-Tumor-Gel.png Researchers from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital have ... out of the tumor before they have had a chance to take full effect. MIT researchers, together with ...

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