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Measuring cancer cell “fitness” reveals drug susceptibility

MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), an extramural member of the Koch Institute ... Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering ... By studying both the physical and genomic features of cancer cells, MIT researchers have come up ...

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AI-driven tool makes it easy to personalize 3D-printable models

co-senior author Stefanie Mueller, an associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering ... these challenges, MIT researchers developed a generative-AI-driven tool that enables the user to add ... and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ...

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Innovations in water accessibility

her junior year, Klise traveled to Tanzania alongside a team of MIT D-Lab students to work on the Okoa ... thinking about water accessibility from an engineer’s perspective, and how the way people get water is so ... different in every part of the world,” says Klise, currently a senior studying mechanical engineering ...

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Imaging technique removes the effect of water in underwater scenes

(ICRA). Their study co-author is John Leonard, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Aquatic optics ... color of objects in the ocean without imaging them at close range. Now a team from MIT and the Woods ... 3D models of an underwater scene,” says MIT graduate student Daniel Yang. The researchers applied ...

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Microfluidics and nanofluidics research address global challenges

Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, addresses real-world ... July 22, 2014 John Freidah | Mechanical engineering green International karnik@mit.edu ... recognize the filtering potential of xylem, porous tissue in the vascular system of plants that conveys ...

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A data-driven response to a pandemic

policymakers at MIT and beyond make informed decisions, the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) has ... elections — and has raised difficult questions about MIT’s capacity to reopen in the fall. To help ... Munther Dahleh, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). “Probability and ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Meg O’Neill (SB ’93, SM ’94)

I’m not ready for. Saying ‘yes’ keeps doors open.” Having started at ExxonMobil as an engineer in ... After a few years, she transferred within the company to work as a reservoir engineer, producing models ... fields. Her next move to New Orleans as a reservoir engineering supervisor placed her much closer to ...

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Meg O’Neill

  Meg O'Neill 1024.jpg   Having started at ExxonMobil as an engineer in 1994, O’Neill is currently ... transferred within the company to work as a reservoir engineer, producing models about how oil and gas flow ... Orleans as a reservoir engineering supervisor placed her much closer to the business side of the company, ...

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New ultrastiff, ultralight material developed

those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ... at MIT and LLNL have tested the process using three engineering materials — metal, ceramic, and ... a system that could be fabricated from a variety of materials, such as metals or polymers, and that may set ...

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A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions

particular problem that they have, so a lot of engineering and not so much flexibility in terms of the ... specific task,” says Alberto Rodriguez, an MIT visiting scientist who is a former member of the MechE ... members of the Manipulation and Mechanisms Lab at MIT (MCube) under Rodriguez’ direction.  “In this work ...

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Talking Shop with Associate Professor Domitilla Del Vecchio

  Domitilla Del Vecchio works on intelligent transportation systems that communicate to prevent ... collisions. What areas does your research focus on? Broadly speaking, my group works in control systems, which ... are systems for which you have to design something that works autonomously. We have two main ...

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Creating innovative health solutions for individuals and populations

adherence. His academic home at MIT is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, but his work integrates ... Van Tassel Career Development Professor, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and ... of innovative solutions to improve patient care. As a physician and an engineer, he brings a unique ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Professor David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ’06)

Director of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT – read Professor Hu’s article in the New ... to emulate what insects do.” When Richard Larson – the Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems and ... science and engineering. Professor Larson is the co-founder and principal investigator of the MIT BLOSSOMS ...

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Illuminating a complex disease

Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s biological engineering and ... Beste, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. A complicated disease Endometriosis is ... infertility, but very little is known about how it arises. In 2009, biological engineer Linda Griffith launched ...

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Supporting the Covid-19 vaccine rollout with extra-strength glass

Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as an SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management. “I was really ... drawn to the MIT LGO program because it covered three main areas: engineering and technology ... never expected to be at the forefront of a pandemic — who does? — but his participation in the MIT ...

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