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Watching tumors burst through a blood vessel
a reservoir of hydrogel, along with growth factors normally present in the developing circulatory system. ... Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We could take circulating tumor cells from a patient and subject those cells ... involved in this research. “This significantly reduces costs with animal models, addresses issues seen in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watching-tumors-burst-through-blood-vesselA bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract
Laboratory for Translational Engineering and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ... of the study. Traverso and his students at MIT developed the new capsule along with researchers at ... In contrast to a small needle, which needs to have intimate contact with the tissue, our experiments ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-capsule-can-pump-drugs-directly-walls-gi-tractStudent Spotlight: Yamile Pariente
a mechanical engineer working at Porsche for their racing team. But being a woman in motorsports has never ... engineering. Pariente will return to MIT in the spring semester to finish up her senior year in mechanical ... cars, so I chose to become a mechanical engineer. “Of all the ‘manly’ hobbies my father tried to instill ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-yamile-parienteIngestible sensor could help doctors pinpoint GI difficulties
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. ... sensor they developed, which is small enough to fit in an ingestible capsule, measures the surrounding ... collaborators to develop manufacturing processes for the system and further characterize its performance in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-sensor-could-help-doctors-pinpoint-gi-difficultiesProfessor Ioannis Yannas, pioneer of regenerative medicine who invented artificial skin for the treatment of severe burns, dies at 90
appointments in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and ... Mechanical Engineering. The film chronicles the development of Integra, which was initially characterized as ... Hart, the Class of 1922 Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. RS463_Ioannis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-ioannis-yannas-pioneer-regenerative-medicine-who-invented-artificial-skinMonthly birth control pill could replace daily doses
health of women and their families, especially in the developing world, the researchers say. “We are ... a daily dose. Langer and Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... team previously developed, which can remain in the digestive tract for days or weeks after being ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-dosesBig data dreams for tiny technologies
developed a screening platform that combines machine learning with high-throughput experimentation to ... nanoformulation,” says Giovanni Traverso, the Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Professor of Mechanical ... of the paper. A cancer therapy meets its match In order to develop a machine learning algorithm ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-data-dreams-tiny-technologiesFinger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots
manipulation tasks we could do with robots,” says Alan (Jialiang) Zhao, a mechanical engineering graduate ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, who was not involved with this ... In addition, the researchers built the finger-shaped sensor with a flexible backbone. By measuring ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finger-shaped-sensor-enables-more-dexterous-robotsAccessible, open-source tools for measuring zeta potential
New research represents a pioneering effort in microbial characterization Understanding the ... systems—poses significant challenges for scientists and engineers. Traditionally, zeta potential, an indirect ... measure of surface charge, has been difficult to ascertain without specialized equipment and facilities. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accessible-open-source-tools-measuring-zeta-potentialHow to make hydrogels more injectable
biomedical uses, but so far very few have made it into the clinic. To help guide in the development of such ... a clinical application standpoint,” says Ellen Roche, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... changing different features of the gels in hopes of optimizing their structure and mechanical behavior for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-hydrogels-more-injectableTwo from MIT named 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholars
a BS in mechanical engineering and a minor in biology. At Cambridge, she will pursue an MPhil in ... Advising and Professional Development. Markey Freudenburg-Puricelli Freudenburg-Puricelli is majoring in ... motivated her to pursue a career in developing scientific policy and environmental regulation that can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-named-2025-gates-cambridge-scholarsA microchip for metastasis
Nearly 70 percent of patients with advanced breast cancer experience skeletal metastasis, in which ... mechanical engineering. “We only waited until day five, but if we had gone longer, [the size of the clusters] ... Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-metastasisHarnessing the Full Potential of the Sun
Evelyn Wang has developed a solar thermophotovoltaic device that experimentally demonstrates an increase ... in energy conversion efficiency. <iframe width="640" height="360" ... src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P8-8FveMieM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Researchers at MIT have developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harnessing-full-potential-sun-0Solid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors
for the tissue’s “phase.” They have developed a method to decode images of cells in a tissue to ... in an embryo as it develops. More immediately, they are applying their method to study and eventually ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We hope that, by simply looking at where the cells ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solid-liquid-or-gas-technique-quickly-identifies-physical-state-tissues-and-tumorsGiving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
mechanical engineering, and graduate student Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, has developed a model that predicts the ... force with which a robotic gripper needs to push against various fixtures in the environment in order to ... extremely tricky, significantly raising a robot’s cost. With Rodriguez’s new approach, existing robots in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-more-nimble-graspDesign prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implants
interfere with many other types of implantable medical devices. However, a team of MIT engineers and ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. ... co-senior author of the study, with Eimear Dolan, a former postdoc in her lab who is now a faculty member at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-prevents-buildup-scar-tissue-around-medical-implantsUltrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air
Boriskina’s group at MIT develops materials that interact with the environment in novel ways. Recently, her ... In recent years, scientists have developed a host of promising sponge-like materials for this ... days. Now, MIT engineers have come up with a way to quickly recover water from an atmospheric water ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasonic-device-dramatically-speeds-harvesting-water-airIntroducing the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance
SM ’03, PhD ’19, senior engineering manager in the GE Vernova Advanced Research Center; Brent Brunell ... working with MIT as students and their hopes for the future of this alliance in the realm of “people ... expanding opportunities for student internships. With 100 new internships for MIT students announced in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/introducing-mit-ge-vernova-climate-and-energy-allianceDepartment Head John Hart Announces New MechE Leadership
Associate Head for Research Ellen Roche is the Latham Family Career Development Associate Professor in Mechanical ... Mechanical and Ocean Engineering. He has provided extensive service to MechE in various roles ... robotics, and other areas of biomedical engineering. Ellen has co-taught design classes (2.009 and 2.75) in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-head-john-hart-announces-new-meche-leadershipInnovation at the Interfaces
Engineering Dear Friends, Education and research innovations in mechanical engineering are increasingly ... boundaries between biology and mechanical engineering. Research continues not only in the medical sphere, ... interface between mechanical engineering and biology. The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering was at ...
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