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Data-driven diabetes management

insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ... everyone.” Tuesday, November 15, 2016 Rob Matheson | MIT News Office Collaboration Culture Education ... nonadherent spend about $2,700 more in medical costs per year than those who are adherent. Now MIT spinout ...

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LEGO Group COO discusses the production network that enables the builders of tomorrow

Speaking at MIT, the LEGO Group COO Carsten Rasmussen discussed the company’s manufacturing ... stranger to many members of the MIT community. Faculty, staff, and students, alike, have developed a love ... and ingenuity, and it has inspired MIT faculty to bring LEGOs into the classroom, including 2.S00 ...

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Bursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A new study from Assistant Professor ... ubiquitous, indoors and out. A new MIT study shows how bubbles contaminated with bacteria can act as tiny ... can emit hundreds of droplets.   MIT-Bacteria-Bubbles-1024.jpg MIT researchers have found that ...

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Benchtop test quickly identifies extremely impact-resistant materials

being more resilient to impacts than others. That’s what MIT engineers are finding in experiments with ... MIT-MetaImpact-01-press_0.jpg: By firing microparticles at supersonic speeds, MIT engineers can test the resilience of various ... its aftermath, with nanosecond precision. meta-impact.gif MIT engineers have captured video of ...

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Stick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate

Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal A team led by Kripa Varanasi has found ... or power lines. MIT-SelfPeel-Drop-1024.jpg MIT researchers have found a surprising new twist to the ... a droplet. Image: Varanasi Group/MIT Now, MIT researchers have found a surprising new twist to the mechanics ...

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Startup founded by MIT alumnus unveils electric vehicles for the future

sure the strategy helps drive those megatrends.” Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Zach Winn | MIT News ... the Los Angeles Auto Show. MIT-Rivian_1024.jpg One of the two models unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto ... release lower-priced cars in the future. MIT past helps change the future Scaringe studied mechanical ...

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A simpler method for learning to control a robot

despite being buffeted by strong winds. Image: MIT News, with figures from iStock “The focus of our work ... in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society ... mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Marco Pavone, associate professor of ...

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Startup’s tablets deliver cancer drugs more evenly over time

Blaesi came to MIT, he knew he wanted his mechanical engineering PhD work to form the basis of a company. ... quantities. MIT-Enzian-01-press_1024.jpg Aron Blaesi PhD ’14 holds two gastroretentive fibrous dosage forms, ... Early on, as part of the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing, he worked on manufacturing ...

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MIT alumnus to compete in Winter Olympics

at MIT and former competitive body builder, Edelman caught the Olympic bug while watching the Olympic ... playing sports after I left MIT,” Edelman says. “Skeleton is an eye-catching sport and seemed like the ... me of those late nights at MIT,” Edelman says. “If you had an assignment due the next morning, it was ...

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A new approach to ultrafast light pulses

Sunday, September 17, 2017 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professor Nicholas ... relatively slow response time. Now, researchers at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and ... applications for these materials. MIT-FastLight-Emit-1024.jpg In this image, light strikes a molecular lattice ...

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At the forefront of building with biology

and PhD in mechanical engineering. Her postdoc at MIT was funded by a L'Oréal USA for Women in ... It would seem that engineering is in Ritu Raman’s blood. Her mother is a chemical engineer, her ... father is a mechanical engineer, and her grandfather is a civil engineer. A common thread among her ...

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Stepping on stage with Beyoncé

working for—a celebration of everyone involved.” MIT-Joe-Brown-Beyonce-Coachella-2018_1024.jpg Joe Brown ... in Course 2 [mechanical engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own ... continued to build his skills as step master of his fraternity while at MIT. But it wasn’t until after ...

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Once-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials

a variety of medications,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... funded by Lyndra Therapeutics. Tuesday, June 10, 2025 Anne Trafton | MIT News Horizontal The ingestible ... MIT researchers have developed a pill that can be taken just once a week and gradually releases ...

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New gels could help the medicine go down

Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ... Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Researchers including Assistant Professor ... easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ...

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New electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses

MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal The newly developed film could enable lighter, more portable, and highly ... easier to integrate,” Xinyuan Zhang, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and ...

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MIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing

Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and recipient of a separate 2017 J-WAFS seed grant, is an expert ... of a new MIT spinout — Xibus Systems — that is aiming to make a splash in the food industry with ... the technology, based on MIT research, was supported by two commercialization grants through the MIT ...

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Unlocking new science with devices that control electric power

engineering, followed by a PhD in mechanical engineering under MIT Professor Ian Hunter, which involved ... the applications are really unimaginable and endless.” Wednesday, April 3, 2024 Zach Winn | MIT News ... Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 was in the middle of an experiment as a postdoc at MIT when the Covid-19 ...

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Stripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids

emerge from chiral forces and building blocks. But that assumption may need some retuning. MIT engineers ... co-author Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “And from ... | MIT News Horizontal A new study by Professor Irmgard Bischofberger finds that chiral structures, with ...

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A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble

rescue teams navigate these structures, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the ... which is led by Nathaniel Hanson. The program is conducted out of the laboratory's  Human ... tube to minimize friction while the robot grows and engineer the controls for steering. While ...

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