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Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?
“If you want a table, then you should just grow a table.” Researchers in Velásquez-García’s group have ... sample of cells extracted from zinnia leaves. MIT researchers have proposed a method to grow plant-based ... So, she brought plant production into the lab. The researchers grew wood-like plant tissue indoors, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-lab-grown-plant-tissue-ease-environmental-toll-logging-and-agricultureThe (robotic) doctor will see you now
that needs to be answered is how patients will react to a robot entering the exam room. Researchers ... conducted nationwide, the researchers also found that a majority of respondents were open to having robots ... Peter Chai, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-doctor-will-see-you-nowA robot that senses hidden objects
In recent years, robots have gained artificial vision, touch, and even smell. “Researchers have ... perception,” he says. The researchers have developed a robot that uses radio waves, which can pass through ... a jumbled toolkit. The research will be presented in May at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-senses-hidden-objectsStents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract
Researchers This kind of localized drug delivery could make it easier to treat inflammatory diseases affecting ... Babaee, an MIT research scientist, is the lead author of the paper, which appears today in Nature ... up and drive into the tissue to do the drug delivery,” Traverso says. For this study, the researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stents-inspired-paper-cutting-art-can-deliver-drugs-gi-tractOvercoming a bottleneck in carbon dioxide conversion
If researchers could find a way to chemically convert carbon dioxide into fuels or other products, ... a power plant or other emissions sources. Now, researchers at MIT have identified, quantified, and modeled ... MIT-CO2-Limits-01-PRESS.jpeg MIT researchers have identified a problem that tends to limit chemical processes for turning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overcoming-bottleneck-carbon-dioxide-conversionMIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards third annual seed grants
MIT.nano has announced its next round of seed grants to support hardware and software research ... are pleased to be able to continue supporting research at the crossroads of the physical and the ... is also principal research scientist in mechanical engineering and the Institute for Medical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-third-annual-seed-grantsBreaking through the mucus barrier
Hospital. In a study appearing today in Science Robotics, the researchers demonstrated that they could use ... injected. Shriya Srinivasan, a research affiliate at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ... in animals, the researchers used this capsule to deliver either insulin or vancomycin, a large ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-mucus-barrierLight-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post-trauma
mobility, and quality of life for a lifetime. Promising new research co-led by Ritu Raman, the d’Arbeloff ... host tissue,” says Raman. A new paper published in the journal Biomaterials presents research that ... Pulsone/Department of Mechanical Engineering The researchers were excited to discover that actuating grafts seem to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-activated-muscle-grafts-show-promise-aiding-muscle-recovery-post-trauma-0Closing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices
design-to-manufacturing gap, researchers from MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong used machine learning to build ... would fabricate a design. The researchers integrate this simulator into a design framework, along with ... to a wide range of photolithography systems. MIT-Neural-Lithography-01_0.jpg Researchers from MIT and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-design-manufacturing-gap-optical-devicesAn inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight
well to weight-loss drugs, the researchers say. “The basic concept is we can have this balloon that is ... be a way of inducing weight loss.” To achieve a longer-lasting effect in patients, the researchers ... animal tests, the researchers found that the mechanical-arm device could effectively expand to fill the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-gastric-balloon-could-help-people-lose-weightNew electroadhesive hydrogel may be used to deliver sustained drug administration for GI diseases
Medicine, MechE researchers introduce e-GLUE, a novel hydrogel interface that uses electroadhesion to both ... researchers Electroadhesion, which works like a mini electrical charge, helps the hydrogel ‘stick’ to the GI ... department and research fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, was doing his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electroadhesive-hydrogel-may-be-used-deliver-sustained-drug-administration-giCooling 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-led-team-receives-funding-pursue-new-treatments-metabolic-diseaseGlobal MIT At-Risk Fellows Program expands to invite Palestinian scholars
for Ukrainian researchers, its architects expressed hope that GMAF would eventually expand to include ... research experiences of international faculty and researchers displaced by humanitarian crises, GMAF brings ... international scholars to MIT for semester-long study and research meant to benefit their regions of origin ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/global-mit-risk-fellows-program-expands-invite-palestinian-scholarsSchool of Engineering welcomes new faculty in 2024-25
new cohort of faculty members, who have recently started their roles at MIT, conduct research across ... a deep commitment to research excellence and a passion for teaching and mentorship.” Faculty with ... Career Development Professor. Her research focuses on sustainable aerospace technology driven by a deep ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-welcomes-new-faculty-2024-25Mo Mirvakili
accurate and affordable solutions for researchers,” Mirvakili says. “This vision extends beyond academia to ... prolific lab, he saw researchers struggling to control temperatures at the microscale for a device that was ... encapsulating drugs. Mirvakili realized the researchers were ultimately struggling with the same set of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mo-mirvakili