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“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication
Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Machine ... getting a closer look for their ability to cause allergic reactions in some patients. But now, in a new ... In this visualization of the researchers’ results, inactive ingredients are shown in blue and their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cinactive%E2%80%9D-pill-ingredients-could-raise-dose-your-medication3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ... its actuation mechanisms are at the micron scale.” Printing with light To print shape-memory ... Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesFostering forward momentum
Institute for Work and Employment Research who help each other to develop and then lead the field in new ... most trying weeks in my graduate career,” one student recalls, “I came out of a conversation with Julie ... with a new excitement about research and about grad school.” Shah is an associate professor in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fostering-forward-momentumBenchtop test quickly identifies extremely impact-resistant materials
being more resilient to impacts than others. That’s what MIT engineers are finding in experiments with ... study author Carlos Portela, the Brit and Alex d’Arbeloff Career Development Professor in Mechanical ... microscopic metamaterials — materials that are intentionally printed, assembled, or otherwise engineered with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/benchtop-test-quickly-identifies-extremely-impact-resistant-materialsMIT HUMANS project breaks down borders, empowering global voices to reach for the stars
Dhulipala, mechanical engineering (MechE) PhD candidate; Jon MacArthur, PhD ’23 in aeronautics and ... never heard beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The Humanity United with MIT Art and Nanotechnology in Space ... the cosmos. Finally, in partnership with MIT.nano, the HUMANS team embarked on the crucial phase of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-humans-project-breaks-down-borders-empowering-global-voices-reach-starsMIT students' works redefine human-AI collaboration
the 38th annual NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) conference in December 2024. With over ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-works-redefine-human-ai-collaborationA New Way to Make Sheets of Graphene
says Hart, the Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. “To make it ... understanding of graphene growth in concert with the mechanics of the nickel film,” he says. “We’ve shown this ... University of Michigan have come up with a way of producing graphene, in a process that lends itself to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-sheets-grapheneSpeedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
SaLoutos, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Someone could put something new ... Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch, MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that ... reflexes to enable nimble, adaptable machines that can work with and among humans in ever-changing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/speedy-robo-gripper-reflexively-organizes-cluttered-spacesWhen muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “Maybe if we stimulate the ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Vincent Butty of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ... the size of a quarter. The team genetically modified the muscle to contract in response to light. With ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-muscles-work-out-they-help-neurons-grow-new-study-showsCancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests
engineering, and Vijay Raj Singh, a research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Squeezing ... Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and an author of the study. MIT graduate ... author. Other MIT authors include Peter So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cancer-cells-soften-they-metastasize-study-suggestsAlumni Profile: Nicholas Mabey SM ‘93
combines graduate-level study in a subject like mechanical engineering with a thesis focused on technology ... of expertise in engineering, economics, and politics with his passion for finding solutions to ... mechanical engineering jobs in renewable energy. “I had tried to find renewable energy work in the UK but ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-profile-nicholas-mabey-sm-%E2%80%9893Nicholas Mabey
change while completing his degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Bristol. After ... graduation, Mabey noticed a trend: there were next to no mechanical engineering jobs in renewable energy. “I ... like mechanical engineering with a thesis focused on technology policy issues. “My time at MIT gave me ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nicholas-mabeyUnder the sea
oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major, will take charge of marine ... this past summer, Young worked in Hawaii with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ... no-fishing zones.” After graduating in June, Young plans to go on to graduate study in ocean engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/under-seaStudent-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes
legendary at MIT. Clare Zhang, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, built that winning robot. While ... Simulated ski run challenges mechanical engineering students to produce a wide array of robots. ... This year’s arena for the annual robotics competition that caps the mechanical engineering class called ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-built-robots-compete-slopesBig Range of Behaviors for Tiny Graphene Pores
says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Karnik says graphene ... keep cells healthy and stable. Now researchers at MIT have created tiny pores in single sheets of ... graphene that have an array of preferences and characteristics similar to those of ion channels in living ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-range-behaviors-tiny-graphene-poresCan an LED-Filled “Robot Garden” Make Coding More Accessible?
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering have ... to get kids excited about programming: a "robot garden" with dozens of fast-changing LED ... developed a tablet-operated system that illustrates their cutting-edge research on distributed algorithms ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-led-filled-%E2%80%9Crobot-garden%E2%80%9D-make-coding-more-accessibleNoninvasive technique reveals how cells’ gene expression changes over time
making it difficult to study ongoing changes in gene expression. An alternative approach developed at MIT ... others in the center have developed Raman spectroscopy-based techniques that could be used to diagnose ... cells. They are now working with cells grown in a lab dish, but in the future, they hope this approach ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-technique-reveals-how-cells%E2%80%99-gene-expression-changes-over-timeYo-yo champion pursues his passions at MIT
not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering ... Department of Mechanical Engineering would allow Hattori to pursue his two biggest passions: robotics and ... many yo-yo companies use to produce plastic yo-yos. He used the same design he developed in 2.008 when ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/yo-yo-champion-pursues-his-passions-mit