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Engineers design sutures that can deliver drugs or sense inflammation

the study. The researchers envision that these sutures could help patients with Crohn’s disease heal ... or surgical incisions elsewhere in the body, the researchers say. Former MIT postdocs Jung Seung Lee ... of the researchers Inspired by catgut Catgut sutures — which are made from strands of purified ...

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Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity

cognitive functions. MIT researchers have now put forth a new hypothesis for how astrocytes might contribute ... MIT-AstroCyteMemory-01-press_1024x768.jpg MIT researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to ... sciences, and an author of the new study. Dmitry Krotov, a research staff member at the MIT-IBM Watson AI ...

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How engineering students are seeking to solve major food and water security problems

presented their research and preliminary findings on issues such as these during the MIT Water and Food ... through research. Kevin Simon_1024.jpg Kevin Patrick Simon (left) sets solar panels in place with ... studying solar irrigation. Photo courtesy of the researcher.   Chandra Madramootoo, CEE visiting professor ...

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3Q: Felice Frankel on improving the visual side of science

Photographer’s new book describes ways for researchers to make their images more informative and ... exhaustive and profusely illustrated tutorial on how to create images of research that are informative, ... or missed opportunities that you see in researchers’ photos? A: Basically, researchers think that we ...

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Learning challenges shape a mechanical engineer’s path

at Madison, Hermus found a research opportunity in medical physics and then later in biomechanics. ... set that makes a successful researcher,” he says. “I had to be organized, advocate for myself, seek ... design. During this undergraduate research, he co-authored numerous journal and conference papers. These ...

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Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is designing and researching the activities humans will ... orchestrated regular parabolic flights through the ZERO-G Research Program to test experiments that rely on ... microgravity. This May, the SEI supported researchers from the Media Lab; MIT's departments of Aeronautics ...

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Collaborating for irrigation access solutions: Where policy and engineering meet

energy-efficient systems like drip irrigation — can help. Two research teams at MIT have been invested in this ... the two teams, that they learned of their overlapping interests and how each group’s research could ... support the other. At MIT, J-WAFS is a strong proponent of convergence research practices to help drive ...

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Pushing material boundaries for better electronics

the advancement of next-generation electronics. His research aims to push electronics past the ... come out of his research are recorded in more than 200 issued U.S. patents and 70 research papers — an ... lectures and presentations, and when brainstorming research solutions. “These textbooks are all in my brain ...

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New Device Could Make Large Biological Circuits Practical

effects. Researchers have made great progress in recent years in the design and creation of biological ... researchers at MIT has now come up with a way of greatly reducing that unpredictability, introducing a device ... early-stage research that could take years to reach commercial application, the concept could have a wide ...

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A New Quantum Approach to Big Data

researchers deal with this ever-growing flood of information. Some of the most powerful of these analytical ... conventional techniques, but could be handled easily by the new quantum approach, the researchers say. Image ... computers to streamline these problems has been developed by researchers at MIT, the University of Waterloo, ...

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Scientists make microscopes from droplets

Researchers at MIT have now devised tiny “microlenses” from complex liquid droplets comparable in size to the ... images of surrounding objects. But now the researchers can also reconfigure the properties of each ... another that scatters light. (Courtesy of the researchers) For instance, Kolle says, tunable microlenses ...

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Multi-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility

Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials ... science discovery program launched by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). Provided over four years, the ... support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing a technology ...

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Talking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock

independent organization established by the UN, has turned to researchers like Thomas Peacock, professor of ... of my research has been fundamental in nature. But I started looking for opportunities to work on ... Lab. How do you mine the ocean floor thousands of meters below sea level? My research focuses on the ...

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Tapping the MIT talent pool for the future of fusion

find.” Many of the researchers at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) are plasma ... physicists and nuclear engineering researchers, she says, but not all. “There are a few of us from other ... but a pivotal challenge exists: Researchers must create and harness fusion reactions to produce net ...

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MIT receives $30 million to help address energy challenges in Egypt

Aswan University, in Egypt. The center will serve to connect researchers at the Egyptian universities ... the private sector to foster research, scholarships, and innovation in agriculture, energy, and water. ... as Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Egypt’s minister of higher education and scientific research. The Center of ...

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New material could make it easier to remove colon polyps

remove safely. However, this cushion doesn’t last long. MIT researchers have now devised an alternative ... a more stable and longer-lasting cushion. Injectable-Hydrogel-1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed ... easier to remove. Image: Courtesy of the researchers “That really makes a huge difference to the ...

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Coatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces

slippery surfaces. The researchers drew on kirigami, a variation of origami that involves cutting paper as ... especially among the elderly, the researchers say. MIT-Shoe-Grip-01-PRESS_1024.jpg  MIT researchers drew on ... Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Sahab Babaee is the lead author of the paper, along with Simo Pajovic, an ...

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