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Engineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”
their technique can be used to fabricate “active” materials for wearable sensors and interactive ... used inks made from temperature-sensitive polymers to print heat-responsive shape-shifting objects. ... cells; others have attempted to do so using live mammalian cells, but with little success. “It turns out ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-%E2%80%9Cliving-tattoo%E2%80%9DLife in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality
gravity for use in exercise on future missions to the moon or to Mars, and to further attenuate ... orchestrated regular parabolic flights through the ZERO-G Research Program to test experiments that rely on ... multi-affiliated Szostak Laboratory, and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology to fly 22 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/life-space-preparing-increasingly-tangible-realityDaniel Hastings and Maria Yang appointed associate deans of engineering
role of design representations. Her research considers early-stage processes used to create successful ... achievements. With a focus on teaching students how to uncover ways to improve design in the world around them, ... continue in addition to his associate dean appointment. He will focus on advancing diversity, equity, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/daniel-hastings-and-maria-yang-appointed-associate-deans-engineeringInside two MIT students’ historic BattleBots runs
championship, the producer asked us how it felt to be there given that when we first came in we were essentially ... Schmidt, who is researching the use of optics to image heart disease as a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT ... match, MIT PhD student Ginger Schmidt became the first female captain (in this case, co-captain) to win ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inside-two-mit-students%E2%80%99-historic-battlebots-runsResearchers develop novel AI-based estimator for manufacturing medicine
The paper’s authors devise a way to use physics and machine learning to categorize the rough surfaces ... that slow down production. Originally the research team planned to use videos to train a computer model ... to replace a human operator. But determining which videos to use to train the model still proved too ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-novel-ai-based-estimator-manufacturing-medicineMIT Portugal Program presents Marine Robotics Summer School
“fun and exciting” to have the chance to do real field work and to use an ROV. “We use sonar to map the ... depth and the surface of the seabed and then also use the camera in our ROV at depth to track fish,” she ... Fifth annual program invites students from MIT and Portuguese universities to “dive deep” into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-portugal-program-presents-marine-robotics-summer-schoolTwo-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
center of mass in relation to the center of pressure, Ramos found, relates directly to how balanced ... ground. Heavy lifting To define how center of mass relates to center of pressure, Ramos gathered human ... to human responders could one day be a mission for resilient, adaptable robots. Imagine, for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-and-jumpingFaculty Feature: Gene Delivery Technique Combines Microfluidics With Electric Shock
says Buie. Non-viral techniques use a physical mechanism to open the cell and inject it with DNA. This ... challenges with stable editing.” Kytopen’s FlowfectTM uses a mix of fluid flow and electric fields to open ... process from the bench to commercial product. “Our technology uses automation and high throughput parallel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-feature-gene-delivery-technique-combines-microfluidics-electric-shockBreaking through the mucus barrier
in animals, the researchers used this capsule to deliver either insulin or vancomycin, a large ... peptide antibiotic that is used to treat a broad range of infections, including skin infections as well as ... the capsule. Another approach that some researchers have used to enhance oral delivery of drugs is to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-mucus-barrierBacteria: The Good and the Bad
use in a microbial fuel cell (MFC), MIT Associate Professor Cullen Buie researches a novel method to ... method of harvesting energy for the grid from wastewater, may also be useful to doctors in identifying ... the ideal bacteria for use in a microbial fuel cell (MFC), MIT Associate Professor Cullen Buie ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bacteria-good-and-badSENSE.nano awards seed grants in optoelectronics, interactive manufacturing
Computer Science are developing a field-sampling technique using nanoscale structures and light waves to ... and have the power efficiency to be used on a large number of manufacturing machines. The mission of ... SENSE.nano is to foster the development and use of novel sensors, sensing systems, and sensing solutions in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensenano-awards-seed-grants-optoelectronics-interactive-manufacturingNew gels could help the medicine go down
a drug-delivering gel that is much easier to swallow and could be used to administer a variety of different kinds of ... Traverso and his colleagues showed that they could use the gels to deliver several types of medications for ... on oil-based gels. Such gels, also known as oleogels, are commonly used in the food industry to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gels-could-help-medicine-go-downCould we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?
raw powder form and used standard textile manufacturing equipment to melt and extrude polyethylene ... became weakly hydrophilic, and able to attract water molecules to its surface. The team used a second ... centrifuge, and recover the particles to use again.” The team’s dry-coloring process contributes to the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-fabrics-futureMIT announces 2023 Bose Grants for daring new research
health are getting a new purpose: to study the behavior of individual honeybees and how those behaviors ... matter how they’re practiced? That’s a question that Daniel hopes to answer with his proposal, ... MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart has announced three Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants to support ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-2023-bose-grants-daring-new-researchBuilding the mountain bike of wheelchairs
also be small enough to be used indoors. So those became the core requirements of the Leveraged Freedom ... wheelchair evolved to a three-wheel frame that used a simple lever system that was more cost-efficient and ... the feedback that we’re getting from people that are actually using the chair that made us want to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-mountain-bike-wheelchairsA. Michael West: Advancing human-robot interactions in health care
fellowship awards to his name, A. Michael West is nonchalant about how he chose his path. “I kind of fell ... suffered orthopedic or neurological injury. “I’m trying to understand how humans control and manage their ... predictably difficult to understand. “How do people control these complex, subconscious systems? Understanding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/michael-west-advancing-human-robot-interactions-health-careA. Michael West
fellowship awards to his name, A. Michael West is nonchalant about how he chose his path. “I kind of fell ... orthopedic or neurological injury. “I’m trying to understand how humans control and manage their movement ... known, what is a working hypothesis, what is testable, what is not testable, and how to bring the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/michael-westSynthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion
By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply ... in pigs, the researchers demonstrated that they could use this approach to simplify the delivery of ... a synthetic epithelial lining that could then be used for drug delivery, making it easier for the patient to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-coating-gi-tract-could-deliver-drugs-or-aid-digestion