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Building robots to expand access to cell therapies
founded by Fred Parietti PhD ’16 and former visiting PhD at MIT Alice Melocchi, is hoping to bring the ... startup came from Melocchi, who was a visiting PhD candidate in MIT’s chemical engineering department in ... 2013 and 2014. Melocchi had been creating drugs by hand in the MIT-Novartis Center for Continuous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-robots-expand-access-cell-therapiesA new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy
(LEES) interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), ... MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, together with collaborators at MIT, National University of ... investigator at LEES and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. S. Isaac P. Tian, NUS graduate student and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-perform-general-inverse-design-high-accuracy2021-22 Takeda Fellows: Leaning on AI to advance medicine for humans
In fall 2020, MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited launched the ... MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration to support members of the MIT community working at the intersection of ... Mohapatra is also pursuing an MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management as part of the Leaders for Global ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2021-22-takeda-fellows-leaning-ai-advance-medicine-humansA lasting — and valuable — legacy
Betar Gallant, MIT associate professor and Class of 1922 Career Development Chair in Mechanical ... of her life: electrochemistry. As an undergraduate at MIT, Gallant did an Undergraduate Research ... earned three degrees at MIT (’08, SM ’10, and PhD ’13). Before joining the MIT faculty in 2016, she was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lasting-%E2%80%94-and-valuable-%E2%80%94-legacyOcean scientists measure sediment plume stirred up by deep-sea-mining vehicle
and highly contested. Now MIT ocean scientists have shed some light on the topic, with a new study on ... surface. Through a sequence of carefully conceived maneuvers. the MIT scientists used the vehicle to ... of the conjecture,” says study co-author Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-scientists-measure-sediment-plume-stirred-deep-sea-mining-vehicleKeeping indoor humidity levels at a “sweet spot” may reduce spread of Covid-19
We know proper indoor ventilation is key to reducing the spread of Covid-19. Now, a study by MIT ... Society Interface, the MIT team reports that maintaining an indoor relative humidity between 40 and 60 ... the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. “Indoor ventilation is still critical,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/keeping-indoor-humidity-levels-%E2%80%9Csweet-spot%E2%80%9D-may-reduce-spread-covid-193D-printed revolving devices can sense how they are moving
are rotating. MIT engineers have now developed a way to easily integrate sensors into these types of ... by MIT News Even though advances in 3D printing enable rapid fabrication of rotational mechanisms, ... a mechanism and potentially limit its motion. Instead, the new system the MIT researchers developed enables ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-revolving-devices-can-sense-how-they-are-movingTiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens
cases, the wait time has to do with time-consuming steps in sample processing and analysis. Now, MIT ... bound to the beads. The MIT team found a faster way to confirm the presence of Dynabead-bound pathogens, ... Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. “Additionally, we hope this approach will eventually ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tiny-magnetic-beads-produce-optical-signal-could-be-used-quickly-detect-pathogensA pose-mapping technique could remotely evaluate patients with cerebral palsy
expensive, time-consuming, and emotionally taxing. MIT engineers hope to alleviate some of that stress with ... every evaluation,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist at MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... on Body Sensor Networks in October. The study’s MIT authors are first author Peijun Zhao, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pose-mapping-technique-could-remotely-evaluate-patients-cerebral-palsyPat McAtamney: Empowering student-led engineering teams
At the Open House for the Edgerton Center Clubs and team this past fall, MIT Technical Instructor ... (46).jpg McAtamney came to MIT in 2002, having worked as a research machinist on NASA's Hubble Space ... a good way. “Don't ever underestimate the MIT student. They're always capable of surprising the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pat-mcatamney-empowering-student-led-engineering-teamsAdhesive coatings can prevent scarring around medical implants
that kind of device failure, MIT engineers have found a simple and general way to eliminate fibrosis by ... for a drug, no need for a special polymer,” says Xuanhe Zhao, an MIT professor of mechanical ... MIT engineers found a way to eliminate the buildup of scar tissue around implantable devices, by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-coatings-can-prevent-scarring-around-medical-implantsNew computer vision method helps speed up screening of electronic materials
pipeline of advanced materials screening. Now, a new computer vision technique developed by MIT engineers ... says MIT graduate student Eunice Aissi. “The whole system would allow us to give a computer a materials ... improving solar energy to transparent electronics and transistors,” adds MIT graduate student Alexander ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-computer-vision-method-helps-speed-screening-electronic-materialsA recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine
A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have ... by adding a common stimulant: caffeine. zero-emissions fuel.jpg MIT engineers Aly Kombargi (left) and ... author Aly Kombargi, a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We also don’t have to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/recipe-zero-emissions-fuel-soda-cans-seawater-and-caffeineHow to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed
consequences. To help prevent such mistakes, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab developed ... the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), ... at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab; and Shervin Ardeshir, a senior research scientist at Netflix. The paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-general-purpose-ai-model%E2%80%99s-reliability-it%E2%80%99s-deployedNoninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue
the resolution of captured images. Now, MIT researchers have developed a new technique that more than ... EECS graduate student; Tong Qiu, an MIT postdoc; Honghao Cao, an EECS graduate student; Fan Wang, ... Innovation in the Department of Biological Engineering; and other MIT colleagues. The research appears today ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-imaging-method-can-penetrate-deeper-living-tissueArtificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
direction, limiting any robot’s range of motion. MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure ... constrict the pupil. Image: Courtesy of the researchers Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow ... Development Professor of Tissue Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team says the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-muscle-flexes-multiple-directions-offering-path-soft-wiggly-robotsJ-WAFS awards commercialization grants to develop technologies for water and food solutions
projects. Together, the funded projects demonstrate MIT’s application of innovative technologies to food and ... Solutions program helps move these water and food technologies from labs at MIT into commercial use, where ... filter technology, funded by J-WAFS Solutions. “MIT was created to move innovative research into the real ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-awards-commercialization-grants-develop-technologies-water-and-food-solutionsAn energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
solve a critical piece of the decarbonization puzzle. An interdisciplinary team from MIT has found that ... Emre Gençer, a research scientist with the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and a member of the team. “Our ... Narayanan, who conducted this work at MIT as part of his doctorate in mechanical engineering, is the lead ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-cream2.007 Forever!
On Tuesday evening, fans of all ages came to MIT’s Johnson Athletics Center to cheer on their ... designed by undergraduates in MIT’s mechanical engineering course, 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I). Each ... which were filmed on and around the MIT campus. Putting an MIT spin on the theme, the instructors billed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-foreverStudent Spotlight: Grace Young (SB ‘14)
Under the Sea By Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman A house by ... ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of aquanauts in living ... a high school junior — and was accepted at MIT. “Amazingly, MIT worked out,” Young says. Young joined the ...
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