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Stretchy 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-obesityCooling when there’s too much heat
researchers have come up with a way to cool hot surfaces more effectively by keeping droplets from bouncing. ... a way to increase the temperature at which water droplets start bouncing. Past research indicated that ... bounce. But the research team discovered that not just any rough surface will do. Through systematic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-when-there%E2%80%99s-too-much-heatNew materials improve oxygen catalysis
MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in ... This method is well understood in principle, but to make it economically viable researchers must find ... MIT researchers say. The specific compounds used in this research were made by combining a lanthanide ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-improve-oxygen-catalysisOcean currents play a role in predicting extent of Arctic sea ice
researchers at MIT have developed a new method for optimally combining models and observations to accurately ... matched actual satellite and ship-based observations in the area. Through their model, the researchers ... in the puzzle to precisely predict sea-ice extent, says Patrick Heimbach, a principal research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-currents-play-role-predicting-extent-arctic-sea-iceKrithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
research. The Rasikbhai L. Meswani Fellowship for Water Solutions and the J-WAFS Graduate Student Fellowship Program both ... research. The students were selected based on the quality and relevance of their research, as well as their ... research topics the students are pursuing exemplify the wide range of approaches that J-WAFS supports ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/krithika-ramchander-and-andrea-beck-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutionsCaroline Sorensen
world. This is exactly the kind of project that I came to MIT hoping to find.” Many of the researchers at ... MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) are plasma physicists and nuclear engineering researchers ... promise of producing safe, abundant, carbon-free electricity but a pivotal challenge exists: Researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/caroline-sorensenMIT-led team receives funding to pursue new treatments for metabolic disease
A team of MIT researchers will lead a $65.67 million effort, awarded by the U.S. Advanced Research ... applied very broadly.” MIT-Traverso-Giovanni-01-Press_0-1.jpg: A team of MIT researchers will receive ... $65.6 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop new ingestible ...
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