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Microfluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes

Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can also frequently monitor the disease as it progresses.” Joining ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-device-helps-diagnose-sepsis-minutes

Cell stiffness may indicate whether tumors will invade

“You can think of the tumor like a sponge,” says Ming Guo, assistant professor of mechanical ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-stiffness-may-indicate-whether-tumors-will-invade

Five MIT students named 2020 Rhodes Scholars

mechanical engineering with a concentration in biomedical engineering. At Oxford, he will pursue an advanced ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-students-named-2020-rhodes-scholars

Monthly birth control pill could replace daily doses

a daily dose. Langer and Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-doses

Researchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells

Marius Peters, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT, Wellesley ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-roadmap-growth-new-solar-cells

A material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will

temperatures.” Yongjie Hu, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace ngineering at the University of ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/material%E2%80%99s-insulating-properties-can-be-tuned-will

“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication

Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Machine ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cinactive%E2%80%9D-pill-ingredients-could-raise-dose-your-medication

Using “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases

mechanical engineering, and the senior author of the study. This approach, described today in the journal ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-%E2%80%9Corgans-chip%E2%80%9D-model-complicated-diseases

Solar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries

by six current and former MIT researchers, including postdoc Ian Mathews and professor of mechanical ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-energy-farms-could-offer-second-life-electric-vehicle-batteries

Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip

Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Imagine connecting a neuromorphic device to ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-put-tens-thousands-artificial-brain-synapses-single-chip

Covid-19 shutdown led to increased solar power output

mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, research scientist Ian Marius Peters, and three others in Singapore ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/covid-19-shutdown-led-increased-solar-power-output

A legacy of curiosity in the name of Hugh Hampton Young

platform.  Emily Hanhauser  Emily is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering (MechE). Her research centers ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/legacy-curiosity-name-hugh-hampton-young

Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread

also include undergraduate Emma Wang and professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis. ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-could-help-determine-quarantine-measures-needed-reduce-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spread

Our gut-brain connection

engineering and mechanical engineering, and Rudolf Jaenisch, an MIT professor of biology and a member of MIT’s ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-gut-brain-connection

An origami-inspired medical patch for sealing internal injuries

mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “This patch technology spans many ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/origami-inspired-medical-patch-sealing-internal-injuries

Could we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?

a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina and her colleagues have ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-fabrics-future

Big data dreams for tiny technologies

nanoformulation,” says Giovanni Traverso, the Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Professor of Mechanical ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-data-dreams-tiny-technologies

Building robots to expand access to cell therapies

a great adventure for someone like me, a physician-scientist, to interact with mechanical engineers and ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-robots-expand-access-cell-therapies

Giving robots better moves

Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who Odhner says encouraged ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-better-moves

Engineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing

Professor of Teaching Innovation and a professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering. “The ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-grow-pancreatic-%E2%80%9Corganoids%E2%80%9D-mimic-real-thing