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New Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy
Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the ... no adverse effect on neighboring healthy cells. MIT-Electric-Therapy_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ... Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology The device, about the size of a U.S. dollar coin, is designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microfluidic-device-offers-means-studying-electric-field-cancer-therapyData-driven diabetes management
nonadherent spend about $2,700 more in medical costs per year than those who are adherent. Now MIT spinout ... year. MIT_CommonSensing_1024.jpg Common Sensing co-founders James White (left) and Richard Whalley. ... insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-diabetes-managementNot stuck on silicon
light-emitting diodes, and other electronic and photonic devices. A new technique developed by MIT engineers may ... almost impossible to separate without damaging both layers. MIT-Graphene-CopyPaste_1024.jpg (Left to ... Kim. Photo: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT “You end up having to sacrifice the wafer — it becomes part of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-stuck-siliconClearing the air
graduate, is one of seven MIT students who have interned with Plume Labs, a Paris-based startup that builds ... four summer interns from the MIT-France Program, which is part of the MIT International Science and ... Technology Initiatives (MISTI), and three one-month interns from the MIT Alumni Association’s Student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/clearing-airVeteran engineer studies career pathways of today’s graduates
becoming a graduate student at MIT, and many of the watershed moments in his engineering career were filled ... with uncertainy. MIT-james-magarian_1024.jpg Jim Magarian is a third-year graduate student and an ... engineering leadership instructor with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. Photo: Bryce ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/veteran-engineer-studies-career-pathways-today%E2%80%99s-graduatesA graphene roll-out
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ... biological separation, and other applications. MIT-Graphene-Roll-1024.jpg A new manufacturing process ... Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT “For several years, researchers have thought of graphene as a potential ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outStartup uses 3-D printing to reinvent the production of metal parts
printing prototypes and small batches of metal parts. MIT-Desktop-Metal-1024.jpg Desktop Metal co-founders ... (seated left to right): Ric Fulop, CEO and co-founder; A. John Hart, MIT professor; Jonah Myerberg, CTO; ... (standing left to right): Yet Ming-Chiang, MIT professor; Chris Schuh, MIT professor; Ely Sachs, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-uses-3-d-printing-reinvent-production-metal-partsStudent entrepreneurs think inside the box
a misdiagnosis. Challenged to reimagine the ambulance of the future, five MIT students — Paolo Adajar, ... patients who are in critical condition. incube-mit-1024.jpg The MIT team, which reimagined the ambulance of ... inside a glass cube housed on the MIT campus. Their effort was part of InCube, a global startup ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-entrepreneurs-think-inside-boxExtending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries
their metal electrodes. Now, MIT researchers have found a way to substantially reduce that corrosion, ... expensive and more compact and lightweight, but they can lose 80 percent of their charge a month. The MIT ... — more than a thousandfold improvement. MIT-Metal-Air-Batteries-1024.jpg Researchers demonstrating the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/extending-life-low-cost-compact-lightweight-batteriesTechnique inspired by dolphin chirps could improve tests of soft materials
yank on it, the Silly Putty will snap like a brittle, solid bar. MIT-Gel-Chirps-01_1024.jpg High ... MIT engineers have devised a technique that vastly improves on the speed and accuracy of measuring ... processes and materials,” says Bavand Keshavarz, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-inspired-dolphin-chirps-could-improve-tests-soft-materialsKen Kamrin seeks fundamental behaviors in sand
member in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Kamrin-02-PRESS-1024.jpg Associate Professor ... avalanches and landslides. At MIT, Kamrin is happiest when surrounded by creativity and noise. “I come from ... a very loud family, and I like the fact that MIT is boisterous and loud,” Kamrin says. “When you walk ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ken-kamrin-seeks-fundamental-behaviors-sandEngineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces
printed from solid, relatively inflexible material. MIT-Printed-Meshes-02-1024.jpg 3-D meshes are designed ... to be lightweight and conformable, similar to fabric and textiles. Image: M. Scott Brauer Now MIT ... Sebastian Pattinson, who conducted the research as a postdoc at MIT. Pattinson, now on the faculty at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-flexible-mesh-ankle-and-knee-bracesPhotovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
problematic for long-term monitoring. MIT-Solar-Sensor_1024.jpg MIT researchers have designed low-cost, ... years before needing replacement. Image courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News MIT researchers ... a time,” says Sai Nithin Kantareddy, a PhD student in the MIT Auto-ID Laboratory. “This work is basically ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/photovoltaic-powered-sensors-%E2%80%9Cinternet-things%E2%80%9DUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ... MIT-Supersonic-Carbon-01-press1024.jpg Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely ... says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsHigh-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet
such as vaccines through skin without using needles. MIT-Bubble-Jet-1024.jpg New study on water jets ... Giants. That’s the motivation behind a new study by engineers at MIT and the University of Twente in the ... famous strobe-light photographs of a bullet piercing an apple, pioneered by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-camera-captures-water-jet%E2%80%99s-splashy-impact-it-pierces-dropletDrug 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 ... paper. Former MIT graduate student Alex Abramson and Novo Nordisk scientists Morten Revsgaard Frederiksen ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-delivery-capsule-could-replace-injections-protein-drugsStudent robot competition honors the legacy of the late beloved professor, Woodie Flowers
future engineers as a professor at MIT, a co-founder of the global FIRST Robotics Competition, and host ... shaped the engineering curriculum at MIT. In what was a radical educational method at the time, Flowers ... Woodie’s impact on education at MIT is the fact that we still use essentially the same format for 2.007 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-robot-competition-honors-legacy-late-beloved-professor-woodie-flowersEngineers develop nanoparticles that cross the blood-brain barrier
chemotherapy drugs can’t penetrate the blood vessels that surround the brain. A team of MIT researchers is now ... Jennifer C. Johnson Clinical Investigator at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, an ... MIT_Blood-Brain-Barrier-01-PRESS_0.jpeg: MIT researchers have created a tissue model that allows them model drug delivery to brain tumors. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-nanoparticles-cross-blood-brain-barrierNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
like pacemakers. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way to improve the energy density of these ... are reported today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in a paper by MIT ... mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, and four others at MIT and Caltech. Replacing the battery in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesMoving water and earth
flow can be off by a wide margin. An MIT team has come up with a better formula to calculate how much ... too unwieldy: How do you quantify a pebble’s contours? The MIT researchers found that instead of ... Qiong Zhang, Ken Kamrin, and Taylor Perron of MIT, and Jeremy Venditti and Ryan Bradley of Simon Fraser ...
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