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Drug delivery capsule could replace injections for protein drugs
Hospital. In a study appearing today in Nature Biotechnology, the researchers demonstrated that their ... of the stomach after being swallowed. Image: courtesy of the researchers Credits: The new pill ... correctly once it arrives in the stomach. However, the researchers redesigned the capsule interior so that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-delivery-capsule-could-replace-injections-protein-drugs2021-22 Takeda Fellows: Leaning on AI to advance medicine for humans
development. Combining technology with cutting-edge health research, the program’s participants hope to improve ... health outcomes across the world. Thus far, the partnership has supported joint research efforts focused ... pursuing research on a broad range of issues tied to health and AI. This year’s Takeda fellows, described ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2021-22-takeda-fellows-leaning-ai-advance-medicine-humansThe best semiconductor of them all?
computers. Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions has carried ... is, the researchers say, the best semiconductor material ever found, and maybe the best possible one. ... uniform. The researchers had to use special methods originally developed by former MIT postdoc Bai Song to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/best-semiconductor-them-allEngineers invent vertical, full-color microscopic LEDs
research group. “With our vertical micro-LEDs, you could have a completely immersive experience and ... journal Nature. Kim and Shin’s co-authors include members of Kim’s lab, researchers around MIT, and ... resolution. For next-generation display technology, researchers are exploring inorganic micro-LEDs — diodes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-invent-vertical-full-color-microscopic-ledsAI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
researchers found a way to simplify this process, known as contact-rich manipulation planning. They use an AI ... Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The research appears this week in IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Learning ... learns to complete a task through trial and error with a reward for getting closer to a goal. Researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-helps-robots-manipulate-objects-their-whole-bodiesDesalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
other passive solar desalination concepts currently being tested. The researchers estimate that if the ... Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Device Research Laboratory. The team envisions a scaled-up ... researchers set the entire box at a tilt within a larger, empty vessel, then attached a tube from the top half ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-tap-waterArtificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
part, however, researchers have only been able to fabricate artificial muscle that pulls in one ... constrict the pupil. Image: Courtesy of the researchers Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow ... like how the iris in the human eye acts to dilate and constrict the pupil. The researchers fabricated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-muscle-flexes-multiple-directions-offering-path-soft-wiggly-robotsFeatured video: Pulling drinking water out of thin air
air, even in arid conditions,” explains Wang. She and her team in MIT’s Device Research Laboratory have ... day per kilogram of the absorbent powder. The researchers hope to increase this output by further ... Wang’s research could have a tangible impact in places experiencing water scarcity — even in the driest ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-pulling-drinking-water-out-thin-airUnderstanding the impact of deep-sea mining
international team of researchers that has been trying to gain a better understanding the environmental impact ... researchers are exploring alternative battery technologies such as sodium-ion batteries and flow batteries ... mining is a crucial unknown right now.” The research Peacock and Alford are conducting will help inform ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-miningEngineers design bionic “heart” for testing prosthetic valves, other cardiac devices
when the researchers remotely inflate the bubbles, they act together to squeeze and twist the inner ... call a “biorobotic hybrid heart,” the researchers envision that device designers and engineers could ... recalls. “There was an unmet need in terms of device testing.” In separate research as part of her doctoral ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-bionic-%E2%80%9Cheart%E2%80%9D-testing-prosthetic-valves-other-cardiac-devicesLooking to space to cure osteoarthritis
leave him any time for research. Then a golden opportunity arose. With the help of the late Irving ... surgery and a pioneering researcher on the biology of human bones and collagen. Glimcher wanted to start ... a research project on cartilage, the tough matrix of fibers that lines the joints, and on osteoarthritis, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/looking-space-cure-osteoarthritisA simpler method for learning to control a robot
Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that ... despite being buffeted by strong winds. The researchers’ approach incorporates certain structure from ... 1024Azizan.jpg Researchers from MIT and Stanford University created a machine-learning method that can derive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simpler-method-learning-control-robotA closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy
fluctuations in the enzymes responsible for breaking down chemotherapy drugs, the researchers say. ... Image: Courtesy of the researchers “Recognizing the advances in our understanding of how drugs are ... journal Med. Continuous monitoring In this study, the researchers focused on a drug called 5-fluorouracil, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closed-loop-drug-delivery-system-could-improve-chemotherapyAdvanced silicon solar cells
today. At the MIT Photovoltaics Research Laboratory (PVLab), teams are working both to define what’s ... to manufacturers that may help prevent the problem. Here, the researchers display a silicon brick, ... economic variables, the researchers determined that three changes are required: reduce the cost of modules ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advanced-silicon-solar-cellsJim Magarian
working on his research project under the guidance of Warren Seering, the Weber-Shaughness Professor in ... job? When Magarian isn’t preparing lectures for class, he’s working on his research, advised by Seering ... and faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research centers around two questions. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-magarianAnette “Peko” Hosoi named associate dean of engineering
engineers. “We as MIT faculty are extremely precise and analytical in our research,” she notes. “We need to ... at Princeton University and then the University of Chicago, began her research career working in ... Her research has garnered attention by both fellow scientists and the general media. Recent ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/anette-%E2%80%9Cpeko%E2%80%9D-hosoi-named-associate-dean-engineeringLow-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking
to an individual. Given a user’s body weight and size, the researchers can tune the shape and ... products. MIT-Prosthetic-Foot-04-1024.jpg The researchers working with collaborators at Jaipur Foot in ... Jaipur, India gaining feedback from prosthesis users. Courtesy of the researchers The custom-designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-prosthetic-foot-mimics-natural-walkingStudy: There’s real skill in fantasy sports
specific qualities that make one fantasy player more skilled over another. Instead, the researchers found, ... win/loss records of thousands of fantasy players over multiple seasons, MIT researchers have found that the ... baseball, basketball, hockey, and football. In their analysis, the researchers followed guidelines laid out ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-there%E2%80%99s-real-skill-fantasy-sportsArtificial reef designed by MIT engineers could protect marine life, reduce storm damage
reduce as much wave energy as existing artificial reefs, using 10 times less material. The researchers ... life to live. Courtesy of the researchers; edited by MIT News “This would be like a long wave-breaker,” ... Strand; research scientists Patricia Maria Stathatou and Carolina Bastidas; and Professor Neil ...
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