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Exploring growth within a confined space
shows clearly how confinement can influence a body’s evolving shape. Tomatocube_1024.jpg Researchers ... confinement. Photo: moonimage/Flickr Now, MIT and Yale University researchers have developed a theoretical framework ... a research team led by Tal Cohen, MIT associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-growth-within-confined-spaceHow to make hydrogels more injectable
or manufacture entirely new tissues. Many researchers are working to develop these hydrogels for ... researchers have created a set of computational models to predict the material’s structure, mechanical ... properties, and functional performance outcomes. The researchers hope that their new framework could make it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-hydrogels-more-injectableA more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state
researchers could reprogram a patient’s T-cells so they are more potent cancer killers. Someday, the approach ... struggle to find the ideal perturbation for their particular application. Researchers from MIT and ... regulation, to prioritize the best intervention in each round of sequential experiments. The researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-effective-experimental-design-engineering-cell-new-stateStretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body
Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a biocompatible and highly ... therapeutic pulses of light or light up at the first sign of disease. The researchers say the fiber may serve ... green regions). In addition to lighting up, the dyes act as a strain sensor, enabling researchers to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchy-optical-fibers-implanting-body“Body on a chip” could improve drug evaluation
engineered tissues from up to 10 organs, the researchers can accurately replicate human organ interactions ... engineering, and Murat Cirit, a research scientist in the Department of Biological Engineering, are also senior ... researchers identify drug targets based on what they know about the biology of the disease, and then create ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cbody-chip%E2%80%9D-could-improve-drug-evaluationScientists observe a single quantum vibration under ordinary conditions
energy known as phonons. MIT-Quantum-1024.jpg MIT researchers detect a single quantum vibration within ... and in precisely engineered, microscopic materials that researchers must probe in a vacuum. In ... temperature. The results, the researchers write in a paper published today in Physical Review X, “bring quantum ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-observe-single-quantum-vibration-under-ordinary-conditionsMonthly birth control pill could replace daily doses
digestive tract. Credit: Lyndra Therapeutics MIT researchers are now developing an oral contraceptive that ... health of women and their families, especially in the developing world, the researchers say. “We are ... Cancer Research, and Tiffany Hua, a former technical associate at MIT, are the lead authors of the paper. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-doses“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication
twist, MIT researchers have discovered that two other inactive ingredients may actually boost medication ... In this visualization of the researchers’ results, inactive ingredients are shown in blue and their ... 17 in Cell Reports, researchers report that vitamin A palmitate, a common supplement, and gum ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cinactive%E2%80%9D-pill-ingredients-could-raise-dose-your-medicationEngineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed a new face mask that they ... much less N95 material than a traditional N95 mask. mask_1024.jpg Researchers at MIT and Brigham and ... effectively as N95 masks. This image shows the mask on a mannequin head. Courtesy of the researchers “One of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-reusable-silicone-rubber-face-maskOur gut-brain connection
different from humans’. To help researchers better understand the gut-brain axis, MIT researchers have ... MIT-GutBrain-Axis-1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed an “organs-on-a-chip” system that replicates interactions between ... the brain, liver, and colon. Image: Courtesy of the researchers. Photo by Martin Trapecar, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-gut-brain-connectionOcean scientists measure sediment plume stirred up by deep-sea-mining vehicle
The study, appearing today in Science Advances, reports the results of a 2021 research cruise to ... abound. There, researchers equipped a pre-prototype collector vehicle with instruments to monitor sediment ... | Top right: At sea, MIT researchers (from left) Carlos Muñoz-Royo, Souha El Mousadik, and Thomas ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-scientists-measure-sediment-plume-stirred-deep-sea-mining-vehicleHow “2D” materials expand
engineering. Zhong is co-lead author of a research paper that demonstrates just such a “ruler.” Rather than ... a research scientist. MIT-Thermal-Expansion1024.jpg A green laser shines onto an atomically thin material. By ... probing how atoms vibrate when deposited on substrates and upon heating, researchers turn Raman ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-%E2%80%9C2d%E2%80%9D-materials-expand2022-23 Takeda Fellows: Leveraging AI to positively impact human health
educational opportunities. Every year Takeda funds fellowships to support graduate students pursuing research ... Engineering whose research leverages AI and machine learning, including regression modeling, to help realize ... cutting-edge applications of machine learning for molecular discovery and drug development. Gao’s research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2022-23-takeda-fellows-leveraging-ai-positively-impact-human-health3D-printed revolving devices can sense how they are moving
mechanisms, with 3D printing. Untitled design (28).jpg: The researchers built a plugin for the computer-aided ... a wheel that measures distance as it rolls across a surface. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers. Edited ... 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-movingEngineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity
given this pill 20 minutes before eating, the researchers found that this treatment not only stimulated ... further research suggests this technology could be safely used in humans, such a pill might offer ... a minimally invasive way to treat obesity, the researchers say. “For somebody who wants to lose weight or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-vibrating-ingestible-capsule-might-help-treat-obesitySix from MIT awarded 2023 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
University’s School of Medicine, where he researches immunity to infectious diseases. He intends to lead ... a scientific career not only contributing to groundbreaking academic research, but also ensuring that the ... fruits of this research have their maximal benefit to society through public policy, outreach, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-awarded-2023-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americansMechE Film "Water Is Life" Wins New England Emmy Award
Wright and Professor Amos Winter as they travel to India gathering research on how to design a low-cost ... Interested in highlighting the important work done in Professor Amos Winter’s Global Engineering and Research ... (GEAR) Lab, Freidah and his colleagues in the media team at MechE honed in on the research PhD student ...
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