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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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measuring-cancer-cell-%E2%80%9Cfitness%E2%80%9D-reveals-drug-susceptibilityStudy: With masking and distancing in place, NFL stadium openings in 2020 had no impact on local Covid-19 infections
particularly at a time when vaccination against the virus was not widely available. Now, MIT engineers have ... Engineering at MIT. “If case counts start to rise again, we know what to do: mask people, put them outside, ... and distance them from each other.” The study’s co-authors are members of MIT’s Institue for Data, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-masking-and-distancing-place-nfl-stadium-openings-2020-had-no-impact-local-covid-19AI-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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-driven-tool-makes-it-easy-personalize-3d-printable-modelsGetting a grip on robotic grasp
way to move your robotic fingers,” says Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT ... — or rather, fingers. Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You do not need to command the robot, but simply move your fingers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspWatching tumors burst through a blood vessel
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We could take circulating tumor cells from a patient and subject those cells ... cancer metastasis. Now researchers at MIT have developed a microfluidic device that mimics the flow of ... previous platforms,” Chen says. Muhammad Zaman, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Boston ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watching-tumors-burst-through-blood-vesselSometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ... in a constantly changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and ... AUVs. The team included mechanical engineering graduate students Tapovan Lolla and Mattheus Ueckermann ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sometimes-quickest-path-not-straight-lineFaculty Research: Professor Neville Hogan
elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, developed the ... Anklebot Helps Determine Ankle Stiffness by David Chandler, MIT News Office For most healthy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-neville-hoganAchieving advisory equilibrium
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems at MIT. His work has focused on dynamic systems ... Cappellaro is a professor of nuclear science and engineering. She leads the Quantum Engineering Group at the ... Center for Ultracold Atoms at MIT and is a member of the Research Lab for Electronics. Her research aims ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/achieving-advisory-equilibrium3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint
help figure skaters improve. Credit: Bryce Vickmark, edited by MIT News; MIT Mechanical Engineering Q: ... MIT Sports Lab researchers are applying AI technologies to help figure skaters improve. They also ... a figure skater’s jump and make recommendations on how to improve. Lu, a former researcher at the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-using-ai-help-olympic-skaters-land-quintAlumni Spotlight: Dr. Dana Yoerger (SB ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’83)
research and academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT ... determined which directions the currents were taking it. As an MIT student, Yoerger studied under Professor Tom ... producing engineering and scientific results.” Yoerger, in addition to being a major part of the team that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-dr-dana-yoerger-sb-%E2%80%9977-sm-%E2%80%9979-phd-%E2%80%9983Dana Yoerger
academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT/WHOI Joint Program ... chemical flux, as well as determined which directions the currents were taking it. As an MIT student, ... and abilities. I like going to sea and solving problems at sea by producing engineering and scientific ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dana-yoergerProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsA new way to make microstructured surfaces
Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the ... engineering and applied mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in this research, ... says this approach “is quite novel because it allows for the engineering of complex 3-D microstructures ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-microstructured-surfacesA microchip for metastasis
Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... Now researchers from MIT, Italy, and South Korea have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic ... mechanical engineering. “We only waited until day five, but if we had gone longer, [the size of the clusters] ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-metastasisStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Faye Wu (SB ’09, SM ’12)
designing in Professor Harry Asada’s lab. Wu – who earned an SB and an SM in mechanical engineering from MIT ... Engineering red Maker asada@mit.edu Horizontal Student Faye Wu is designing a robotic finger system you can ... in mechanical engineering, demonstrates the "supernumerary robotic fingers" device. Photo: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-faye-wu-sb-%E2%80%9909-sm-%E2%80%9912Advocating for federal research funding on Capitol Hill
In late March, 29 MIT graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduates traveled to Washington to ... works at the intersection of research and public policy. This is the 13th consecutive year MIT students ... Biological Engineering, who was motivated to participate by the NSF funding that enabled her to train in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advocating-federal-research-funding-capitol-hillProtecting maternal health in Rwanda
PhD '02, research scientist in mechanical engineering at MIT and technology lead for the team. ... MIT, Harvard University, and Partners in Health (PIH) in Rwanda have proposed a solution to address ... a new MIT student from Rwanda and would later join Fletcher’s team at MIT. With Fletcher’s mentorship, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-maternal-health-rwandaModel could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread
A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ... global statistics of this pandemic,” says lead author Raj Dandekar, a graduate student in MIT ... ’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. As the country battles a winter wave of new infections, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-could-help-determine-quarantine-measures-needed-reduce-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadUnderstanding and treating disease
Helmholtz Career Development Professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. “Rather than ... conducting represents just one example of how mechanical engineering researchers across a diverse range of ... of prosthetic feet or building cheaper wheelchairs, mechanical engineers are finding ways to improve ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-and-treating-disease