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A Mollusk of a Different Stripe

its blue-striped appearance./ Courtesy of the researchers Now scientists at MIT and Harvard University ... light. The researchers speculate that such patterning may have evolved to protect the limpet, as the blue ... mineral structures, arranged in such a way as to reflect only blue light. The researchers say such natural ...

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“Colloidal gels,” ubiquitous in everyday products, divulge their secrets

Researchers at MIT have developed a new method for determining the structure and behavior of ... a soft glassy solid. Image: courtesy of the researchers “We believe this new overall picture and ... and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Our results enable researchers to determine why weak ...

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Engineers develop nanoparticles that cross the blood-brain barrier

chemotherapy drugs can’t penetrate the blood vessels that surround the brain. A team of MIT researchers is now ... barrier, the researchers showed that the particles could get into tumors and kill glioblastoma cells. Many ... Jennifer C. Johnson Clinical Investigator at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, an ...

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Noninvasive technique reveals how cells’ gene expression changes over time

could enable researchers to track such changes over extended periods of time. The new method, which is ... performed repeatedly. Using this technique, the researchers showed that they could monitor embryonic stem ... engineering at MIT, director of MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center, and one of the authors of the paper. ...

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An implantable sensor could reverse opioid overdoses

can’t always reach the person who has overdosed in time. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s ... occurred, it rapidly pumps out a dose of naloxone. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers In a study appearing ... today in the journal Device, the researchers showed that the device can successfully reverse overdoses ...

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A technique for more effective multipurpose robots

multipurpose robots, MIT researchers developed a technique to combine multiple sources of data across domains, ... to what researchers have done with ChatGPT, is an important step for the robotics field,” says Lirui ... Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of CSAIL. The research will be ...

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Tunneling Across a Tiny Gap

macroscopic distances. But it’s been difficult for researchers to ascertain how heat flows across intermediate ... gaps. Now researchers at MIT, the University of Oklahoma, and Rutgers University have developed a model ... chloride to another. New research shows that phonons can reach across a gap as small as a nanometer, ...

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Needles that hit the right mark

which the needles are inserted too far or placed in the wrong tissue. A team of researchers from MIT and ... teamed up with researchers at MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center, headed by Peter So, a professor of ... mechanical engineering and biological engineering. So and MIT research scientist Jeon Woong Kang designed and ...

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Office of Sustainability names 2018 grant winners

Sustainability Incubator Fund grants. With the Incubator Fund, MITOS supports research that utilizes MIT’s campus ... a two-semester class to prototype carbon-neutral cooling systems. In both cases, the research will be managed in ... support projects that bring students, faculty, and staff together to apply sustainability research and ...

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Acoustic waves can monitor stiffness of living cells

used to study other biological phenomena such as programmed cell death or metastasis, the researchers ... Integrative Cancer Research, and the senior author of the study. It could also be useful for analyzing how ... individual patients, the researchers say. Joon Ho Kang, an MIT graduate student, is the first author of the ...

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Soft robotics breakthrough manages immune response for implanted devices

Researchers from the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT; the National ... University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway); and AMBER, the SFI Research Centre for Advanced Materials and ... BioEngineering Research, recently announced a significant breakthrough in soft robotics that could help patients ...

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MIT engineers propose a safer method for sharing ventilators

difficulty in ensuring that each patient is receiving the right amount of air. A team of researchers from MIT ... recommended as a last recourse.” The researchers are now working to engage with third parties for the purpose ... a patient’s air intake changes. To create their setup, the researchers used parts that are normally available ...

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Counting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads

Engineering, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the senior author of the ... study. Using their new system, the researchers were able to study CTCs from pancreatic tumors as well as ... between one and 10 such cells. In recent years, researchers have devised strategies to capture these ...

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