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Engineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing
MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have ... cells. Their new models could help researchers develop and test potential drugs for pancreatic cancer, ... mimics the extracellular environment surrounding the pancreas, the researchers were able to grow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-grow-pancreatic-%E2%80%9Corganoids%E2%80%9D-mimic-real-thingCould carbon monoxide foam help fight inflammation?
A team of researchers led by MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the University of Iowa, and Beth Israel ... MIT-Carbon-Monoxide-01-PRESS_0-1.jpg: Researchers at MIT and several other institutions designed this foam that can deliver bubbles of ... researchers showed that these foams reduced inflammation of the colon and helped to reverse acute liver ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-carbon-monoxide-foam-help-fight-inflammationAdhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater
other marine animals, researchers from MIT and other institutions have designed a mechanical adhesive ... system that can attach firmly to soft surfaces, even underwater. Photo courtesy of the researchers. This ... device, the researchers showed, can adhere to the lining of the GI tract, whose mucosal layer makes it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-inspired-hitchhiking-sucker-fish-sticks-soft-surfaces-underwaterNew pill can deliver insulin
2 diabetes An MIT-led research team has developed a drug capsule that could be used to deliver oral doses of ... insulin, which is injected after the capsule reaches the stomach. In tests in animals, the researchers ... Integrative Cancer Research, and one of the senior authors of the study. Giovanni Traverso, an assistant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-pill-can-deliver-insulinWhitehead Institute receives $10 million to study sex chromosomes’ impact on women’s health
science, and philanthropic leader — has made a $10 million gift to support research uncovering the ... differences at the molecular level — a long-neglected area of biomedical research — by building a fundamental ... promise: catalyzing basic and translational research studies and collaborations that transform health care ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whitehead-institute-receives-10-million-study-sex-chromosomes%E2%80%99-impact-women%E2%80%99s-healthIngestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule ... MIT researchers have designed an ingestible sensor that can lodge in the stomach for a few weeks and ... communicate wirelessly with an external device. Image courtesy of the researchers The capsules, manufactured ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-capsule-can-be-controlled-wirelesslyRobotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses ... simultaneously. Using this design, the researchers built a three-fingered robotic hand that could identify objects ... do,” says mechanical engineering graduate student Sandra Liu, co-lead author of a research paper on the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-hand-can-identify-objects-just-one-graspBuilding 31 powers back up
into a gleaming home for research in autonomy, turbomachinery, energy storage, and transportation. The ... faculty, students, and researchers. Faculty and students are moving back in with their robots, drones, and ... (AeroAstro) describes the space as “one of the largest custom-designed, dedicated spaces for robotics research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-31-powers-backFive MIT faculty elected 2021 AAAS Fellows
the W. M. Keck Professor of Energy in the Department of Chemistry. His group’s research focuses on ... MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, director of Model Systems and Neurobiology at the Stanley ... Center for Psychiatric Research, and an institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-faculty-elected-2021-aaas-fellowsAdvocating for science funding on Capitol Hill
exposes participants to the process of U.S. federal policymaking and the many avenues researchers can use ... to advocate for scientific research. The participants also meet with Washington-based alumni and ... legislative process, and how academic researchers can get involved in advocating for policies for science. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advocating-science-funding-capitol-hillMIT’s growing global leadership in water achieves industry recognition
either working in or consulting with water and wastewater systems and plants, researchers and educators, ... (Northumbrian Water); and many more. Lienhard was recognized for the specific research-based water sector ... innovations that have come out of his lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Lienhard Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-growing-global-leadership-water-achieves-industry-recognitionNew gels could help the medicine go down
easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ... for children anywhere, the researchers say. They could also help adults who have difficulty swallowing ... researchers explored several types of plant-derived oils, including sesame oil, cottonseed oil, and flaxseed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gels-could-help-medicine-go-downMIT engineers find a way to protect microbes from extreme conditions
storage. MIT researchers have now developed a new way to make microbes hardy enough to withstand these ... compounds that the FDA classifies as “generally regarded as safe.” The researchers identified formulations ... Science and Research Phyllis Friello, and the researchers are now analyzing how well the microbes were ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-find-way-protect-microbes-extreme-conditionsThe tenured engineers of 2021
scholars has shown an incredible commitment to teaching and research — they have each had a tremendous ... Computer Science and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, focuses his research ... in the areas of computer networks and systems. His research aims to improve the performance, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tenured-engineers-2021MIT-Takeda Program heads into fourth year with crop of 10 new projects
and manufacturing. “The research projects in the second round of funding have the potential to lead to ... learning (ML) research. Image 3.jpg MIT-Takeda Program leadership and administrators (left to right) Anne ... AI space, and to combine that with the problems and the challenges that we see in drug research and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-takeda-program-heads-fourth-year-crop-10-new-projectsMIT School of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards in summer 2025
Each year, faculty and researchers across the MIT School of Engineering are recognized with ... prestigious awards for their contributions to research, technology, society, and education. To celebrate these ... recognized for his research on sodium-ion batteries and ammonia production. Daniel G. Anderson, the Joseph R. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-school-engineering-faculty-and-staff-receive-awards-summer-2025The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants
Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT. His work is in wireless sensing, where his research group has largely focused on ... J-WAFS seed grant request for proposals I realized that this was a great way for [my research group] to ... expand our efforts in the food sector.” The resulting research project, a wireless sensor that uses RFID ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/catalyzing-potential-j-wafs-seed-grantsMeet the women shaping science and engineering in Saudi Arabia
research at MIT. Each fellow is paired with an MIT faculty for a research project and exposed to a number ... with each fellow on identifying the appropriate research project and helping them navigate their new ... provided an overview of their research projects. Topics ranged from carbon nanomaterials to solar cells and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-women-shaping-science-and-engineering-saudi-arabiaOceanographers produce first-ever images of entire cod shoals
the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, was able to image multiple cod shoals, the largest ... spanning 50 kilometers, or about 30 miles. From the images they produced, the researchers estimate that the ... in the journal Fish and Fisheries. Echoes in the deep For years, researchers have attempted to image ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oceanographers-produce-first-ever-images-entire-cod-shoals-0Measuring cancer cell “fitness” reveals drug susceptibility
By studying both the physical and genomic features of cancer cells, MIT researchers have come up ... treatment, the researchers say. In a paper appearing in the Nov. 28 issue of the journal Genome Biology, the ... researchers identified a growth signaling pathway that is active in glioblastoma cells that are resistant to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measuring-cancer-cell-%E2%80%9Cfitness%E2%80%9D-reveals-drug-susceptibility