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Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity

says Jean-Jacques Slotine, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive ... cognitive functions. MIT researchers have now put forth a new hypothesis for how astrocytes might contribute ... MIT-AstroCyteMemory-01-press_1024x768.jpg MIT researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to ...

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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 ... 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 ...

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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. ... easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ... pills, such as older people or people who have suffered a stroke. MIT-DrugGel-02-press.jpeg The ...

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Tackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time

alone. A new study by MIT researchers, presented at the recent American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... ZhiYi Liang, PhD student on the renewable hydrogen team at the  MIT K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and ... GEAR, and Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ...

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Model quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread

MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the Covid-19 pandemic in ... studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical ... engineering, Dandekar has spent the past few months developing the model as part of the final project in class ...

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Noninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue

Innovation in the Department of Biological Engineering; and other MIT colleagues. The research appears today ... the resolution of captured images. Now, MIT researchers have developed a new technique that more than ... well-suited for demanding imaging applications like cancer research, tissue engineering, drug discovery, and ...

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Ravi Patil

started a podcast:  Institrve: True Stories About MIT; a Trove of Wonder, Discovery, and Madness ... HERE-  Slice of MIT Podcast Presents: Institrve  As an alumnus with deep and continuing connections to ... MIT―he has served as a club president, on a reunion committee, and is currently an educational ...

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John Lewandowski

cost and sensitivity were going in the same direction,” says Lewandowski. “Engineers would design ... properties.   As a mechanical engineer, Lewandowski, who had originally wanted to be a medical doctor and ... studied biology as an undergraduate at CWRU, envisioned a solution that took advantage of these mechanical ...

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Yo-yos offer a first foray into manufacturing at scale

Each semester, the machine shop in MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity churns out ... complete with rotating lightsabers. These yo-yos are the creation of mechanical engineering students in ... While a yo-yo might seem like an unusual choice for an engineering class, according to John Hart, ...

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MIT students' works redefine human-AI collaboration

Credits: Be the Beat  “Be the Beat,” by Ethan Chang, an MIT mechanical engineering and design student, and ... Zhixing Chen, an MIT mechanical engineering and music student, is an AI-powered boombox that suggests ... style. That’s the idea behind “Be the Beat,” one of several projects from MIT course 4.043/4.044 ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-works-redefine-human-ai-collaboration

Method rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions

1024-Planning-01_0-1.jpg MIT researchers have developed a rapid safety check technique which can ensure a robot will avoid ... that can avoid false positives are typically too slow for robots in the real world. Now, MIT ... programming, and adapted it to effectively solve the safety check problem. Using sum-of-squares programming ...

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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 ... Traverso, a visiting scientist who will join the MIT faculty in 2019, along with lead authors Xinyue Liu, ...

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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. ... A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ... global statistics of this pandemic,” says lead author Raj Dandekar, a graduate student in MIT ...

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A simpler method for learning to control a robot

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 ... Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that ...

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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 ... a sleep lab, hooked up to a variety of sensors and monitors. Researchers from MIT, Celero Systems, and ... tract. Traverso is one of the senior authors of the study, along with Robert Langer, an MIT Institute ...

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Finding Joy in Making, and the Making of #HellaJuneteenth

suburb of Maywood, Illinois, Harris majored at MIT in mechanical engineering and architecture and minored ... thinker and former MIT faculty member John Maeda ’89, SM ’89. On the eve of Juneteenth, Harris went on ... did that happen? Harris: I learned photography using a digital camera mostly at MIT [taking classes ...

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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 ... Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 was in the middle of an experiment as a postdoc at MIT when the Covid-19 ... directly with Langer on a totally different problem in biomedical engineering. In Langer's famously ...

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