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Weighing cancer cells to personalize drug choices

Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer ... drug treatments, says Scott Manalis, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of ... readout of the effects of a lot of different types of drug mechanisms.”   The new study, which focused on ...

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An easier way to remove medical devices

Traverso, the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of ... postdoc, is the lead author of the paper. MIT-Dissolving-Devices-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have shown ...

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A protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy

mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Traverso and James ... National Cancer Institute, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the U.S. Advanced Research ... the study, which appears today in Nature Biomedical Engineering. The paper’s lead authors are Ameya ...

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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to physically apply ... project. In 2021, as Kachkine made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he ... Mechanical Engineering, and the MIT Libraries. Tuesday, June 10, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal ...

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Alex Kachkine

Kachkine, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to ... made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he drove up the East Coast and ... Mechanical Engineering, and the MIT Libraries. Communications Department Wednesday, October 22, 2025 Alumni ...

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Abe Schneider

followed three years later and majored in mechanical engineering for both his bachelor’s and master’s ... before starting a company. After graduation, Abe worked as a mechanical engineer and did some consulting ... a mechanical windmill on the north side of the house. “We grew up hanging clothes on a line, and it wasn’t ...

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David Hesslink

mechanical engineering major. “The only thing I knew for sure was I loved playing baseball.” That started to ... O'Leary Department of Mechanical Tuesday, July 25, 2017 Culture Prospective-Grad Prospective-Students ...

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Darya Guettler

process as equitable as possible.” Guettler decided to combine her mechanical engineering major with ... most looking forward to now is her capstone for mechanical engineering, 2.s009 (Explorations in Product ... equitable as possible.” Guettler decided to combine her mechanical engineering major with a degree in ...

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Staff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service

Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering John E. Fernández, professor, Department of Architecture, ...

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Alum Startup Gives Ski Style a Lift

as important as skiing,” McGee says. At MIT, McGee focused on mechanical engineering. His advisor, ... question they might ask.” McGee started his career as a product design engineer for Apple, where he learned ...

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MIT Participates in the White House's National Week of Making

campus in a diversity of ways,” says Martin Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering and MIT’s ...

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De Florez Competition Winners Split $20K in Prize Money

With an impressive array of some of the best gadget and product developments mechanical ... engineering students have to offer, this year’s de Florez Competition pitted 25 applicants against each other ...

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MechE researchers pioneer human motor control theory through global collaboration at TU Munich

studies. Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Kimberly Tecce | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture ...

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How to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject

mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. The work, reported today in the journal Science Advances, shows that ... Neelesh Patankar, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, who was not associated ... detailed analysis, the team determined the mechanism that was producing these leg-like protrusions. They ...

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Ingestible sensor could help doctors pinpoint GI difficulties

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. ... Engineers at MIT and Caltech have demonstrated an ingestible sensor whose location can be ... engineering and medical engineering at Caltech, and Mikhail Shapiro, a professor of chemical engineering at ...

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Bubble findings could unlock better electrode and electrolyzer designs

graduate student Simon Rufer, professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, research scientist Ben ... available an open-source, AI-based software tool that engineers and scientists can now use to automatically ... engineering the contact and growth of bubbles on electrodes can have dramatic effects” on how bubbles form and ...

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Four from MIT named 2025 Rhodes Scholars

Haiti, majoring in mechanical engineering, was awarded a Global Rhodes Scholarship on Nov 1. The first ... she will pursue graduate studies in engineering science, working toward her ongoing goal of advancing ... electrical engineering and computer science departments, and received a teaching excellence award. She taught ...

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Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI.

Mechanical Engineering and director of LAMM. The framework, which the researchers call SciAgents, consists of ... Ghafarollahi, a postdoc in the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM), and Markus Buehler, the ... Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering in MIT’s departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of ...

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Bioinspired robotics class offers intriguing surprises

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. The backflip is basic when compared to an enormous repertoire of ... meche.mit.edu/magazine.    Thursday, June 8, 2023 Michaela Jarvis | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education ... a “systematic methodology for applying biological concepts to mechanical systems.” “Biomimetics isn’t just ...

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Bound for Robotic Glory

force must be applied to propel the robot forward. Sangbae Kim, an associate professor of mechanical ... engineering at MIT, hypothesizes that this force-control approach to robotic running is similar, in principle, ... Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. These motors are controlled by amplifiers designed by David ...

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