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Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
occur in aneurysms and stroke. “Stroke is the number five cause of death and a leading cause of ... engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “If we could design a device to reverse blood ... hope.” Zhao and his team, including lead author Yoonho Kim, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsA 3D printable tissue adhesive
MIT researchers introduce a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive that can be used to ... biocompatibility. “There has been a lot of progress recently in the field of bio-adhesives, but traditionally, these ... materials have been confined to a “one-size-fits-all” paradigm – meaning they feature a fixed set of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printable-tissue-adhesiveMaking RNA vaccines easier to swallow
needles. Now, a team of MIT researchers has developed a way to deliver RNA in a capsule that can be ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In ... pigs. Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-rna-vaccines-easier-swallowA new way to provide cooling without power
MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive ... versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight, were ... built and tested on the roof of an MIT building to confirm that they could provide cooling well below ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-provide-cooling-without-powerDrug delivery capsule could replace injections for protein drugs
injected. A team of MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... MIT-Injection-Pills-1024.jpg The new pill can inject large quantities of monoclonal antibodies and other drugs into the lining ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-delivery-capsule-could-replace-injections-protein-drugsNew bioadhesive strategy can prevent fibrous encapsulation around device implants on peripheral nerves
Professor, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering at MIT. “We further demonstrated ... the network connecting the brain, spinal cord and central nervous system to the rest of the body, ... of neurological and systemic diseases. However, because the body perceives these implants as foreign ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-bioadhesive-strategy-can-prevent-fibrous-encapsulation-around-device-implantsSearch-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden “traps” in ocean waters
When an object or person goes missing at sea, the complex, constantly changing conditions of the ocean ... can confound and delay critical search-and-rescue operations. Now researchers at MIT, the Swiss ... Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and Virginia Tech ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/search-and-rescue-algorithm-identifies-hidden-%E2%80%9Ctraps%E2%80%9D-ocean-waters-0Engineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing
environment. Unlike some of the gels now used to grow tissue, the new MIT gel is completely synthetic, easy to ... MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have ... developed a new way to grow tiny replicas of the pancreas, using either healthy or cancerous pancreatic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-grow-pancreatic-%E2%80%9Corganoids%E2%80%9D-mimic-real-thingStudy Assesses Solar Photovoltaic Technologies
work on other technologies. An MIT assessment of solar energy technologies concludes that today’s ... Vladimir Bulović, the Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Professor of Emerging Technology and MIT’s associate dean for ... the vast majority of the solar cell market. To help guide today’s thinking, the MIT team came up with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-assesses-solar-photovoltaic-technologiesFinger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots
perform. MIT-Svelte-Finger-02-PRESS.jpg A breakdown of the components that make up the finger-like touch ... sensor. Image: Courtesy of the researchers MIT researchers have developed a camera-based touch sensor that ... along the entire length of each finger, would send information to your brain about the tool you are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finger-shaped-sensor-enables-more-dexterous-robotsI2P Example Project Areas
acoustic response. Reduction of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and bodily injury- Project involves modelling ... of biomechanical injury pathways associated with high intensity sounds and blasts. Reduction of ... bodily injury- Creation of tools and instruments to measure and estimate the biomechanical loading of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/alliance-example-projectsTransatlantic connections make the difference for MIT Portugal
says John Hansman, the T. Wilson Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and co-director of ... universities and to instill some of the MIT culture with the culture in Portugal, and I think that’s been ... hugely successful,” says Douglas Hart, MPP co-director and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transatlantic-connections-make-difference-mit-portugalExpanding the conversation about sustainability
like MIT. “The experience of coming to an institution like MIT, as someone who is low-income or of ... Stacy Godfreey-Igwe sat in her dorm room at MIT, staring frantically at her phone. An ... unprecedented snowstorm had hit her hometown of Richardson, Texas, and she was having difficulty contacting her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/expanding-conversation-about-sustainabilityMaking agriculture more resilient to climate change
Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ... missions of the recently launched Climate Project at MIT, which focus on research areas such as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeMIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body
MIT-Ultrasound-sticker-1024.jpg MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The ... environmental engineering at MIT. “We believe we’ve opened a new era of wearable imaging: With a few patches on ... prevents dehydration of hydrogel,” says Chen, an MIT postdoc. “Only when hydrogel is highly hydrated can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-develop-stickers-can-see-inside-bodyTesting new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”
MIT-ALS-Model_1024.jpg MIT engineers created this model of the neuromuscular junction using motor neurons derived from ... MIT and the senior author of the study. MIT postdoc Tatsuya Osaki is the lead author of the paper, ... which appears in the Oct. 10 issue of Science Advances. Sebastien Uzel, a former MIT graduate student, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/testing-new-drugs-%E2%80%9Cals-chip%E2%80%9DTunneling Across a Tiny Gap
gaps. Now researchers at MIT, the University of Oklahoma, and Rutgers University have developed a model ... MIT-Heat-Transfer 1024.jpg This illustration depicts phonons "tunneling" from one lattice of sodium ... Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tunneling-across-tiny-gapProduction in the Innovation Economy
That is the kind of problem Berger and 19 of her faculty colleagues at MIT, including Department Head ... question is currently at the forefront of MIT’s concerns as well. Institute President Susan Hockfield is ... MIT Faculty See Promise in American Manufacturing Photo Credit: MIT News Office by Peter ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/production-innovation-economyTemperature difference propels droplets
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new way of driving fluid droplets across ... described this week in the journal Physical Review Fluids, in a paper by MIT associate professor of ... MIT-Thermo-Action_948.jpg In a time-lapse sequence, infrared imaging shows the temperature changes within a droplet of water ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/temperature-difference-propels-dropletsNew African and African diaspora studies major takes off at MIT
African diaspora studies. Photo Courtesy of Stacey Godfreey-Igwe. “I originally came to MIT wanting to ... Godfreey-Igwe complete a petition for a customized major in MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences ... together of threads from across MIT’s schools and departments.” The AADS major, minor, and concentration ...
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