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Using “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases

MIT biological engineers have created a multitissue model that lets them study the relationships ... human gut plays an important role under these inflammatory conditions. MIT-Gut-Liver-1024.jpg MIT ... School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation, a professor of biological engineering and ...

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Experiments reveal the physics of evaporation

been analyzed in detail at a molecular level, in a new analysis by MIT postdoc Zhengmao Lu, professor ... a liquid boils away from a hot surface. MIT-Evaporation-Physics-01_1024.jpg Evaporation hasn’t been studied ... in detail at a molecular level, until now. New MIT research has revealed details of the process. ...

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Ingestible medical devices can be broken down with light

light-sensitive material developed by MIT researchers including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso could ... done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break down inside ... requirement for a major procedure,” says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, ...

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Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state

says Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who directed the project. ... very much in motion. MIT-Kilogram-Cooling-1024.jpg MIT scientists have cooled a 10-kilogram object to ... optics technicians examining one of LIGO’s mirrors. Image Courtesy of Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab In the last ...

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New Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down

operation, says a team of MIT researchers who have made a demonstration version of the new battery. Liquid ... co-authored by Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet-Ming Chiang, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Alexander Slocum, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and POSCO ...

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Engineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing

MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have ... environment. Unlike some of the gels now used to grow tissue, the new MIT gel is completely synthetic, easy to ... assemble and can be produced with a consistent composition every time. MIT-Pancreatic-Tumor-1024.jpg MIT ...

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Taking on the stormy seas

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and computational methods to try to predict ... the other. Today, Sapsis, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and ... Jarvis | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor Themistoklis Sapsis uses analytical and computational ...

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How to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater

Environmental Science, in a paper by MIT professors T. Alan Hatton and Kripa Varanasi, postdoc Seoni Kim, and ... Chandler | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor Kripa Varanasi, the Varanasi group, and researchers from ... enter this area. Now, a team of researchers at MIT says they may have found the key to a truly efficient ...

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Microscopy technique makes finer images of deeper tissue, more quickly

Mriganka Sur, the Newton Professor of Neuroscience at MIT; and Peter So, an MIT professor of mechanical ... requires scanning individual pixels one at a time. A team of MIT and Harvard University researchers has now ... neurons within the brain, the researchers say. MIT-Fast-Brain-Imaging-01-1024.jpg This image shows ...

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A more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state

Sunday, October 1, 2023 Adam Zewe | MIT News Horizontal Professor Themis Sapsis and a team of engineers ... disease-ravaged organs. MIT-Active-Learning-01_0.jpg But the human body has about 20,000 genes, and a genetic ... struggle to find the ideal perturbation for their particular application.    Researchers from MIT and ...

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New Device Could Make Large Biological Circuits Practical

Innovation from MIT could allow many biological components to be connected to produce predictable ... researchers at MIT has now come up with a way of greatly reducing that unpredictability, introducing a device ... professor of mechanical engineering Domitilla Del Vecchio and professor of biological engineering Ron Weiss. ...

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Infinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition

wins-DOE-CleanTech-UP-MIT-1024.jpg Left to right: Infinite Cooling researchers graduate student Karim Khalil, associate professor of ... Cooling researchers, including MIT Associate Professor Kripa Varanasi and graduate students Maher Damak ... Infinite Cooling, an energy startup founded at MIT, pitched its business plan to a panel of energy ...

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3D printing tiny parts for big impact

MIT Professor Nicholas Fang to print millimeter-sized products with details at the micron scale. Image ... parts that power our world. Enter Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF). The company was co-founded by MIT ... Professor Nicholas Fang in 2016 to improve the resolution and precision of 3D printing. Today BMF is helping ...

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Engineers develop a better way to deliver long-lasting drugs

assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University; MIT graduate student Sanghyun Park; ... MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less pain, by ... MIT_Injectable-Microcrystals 1024.png MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less ...

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“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them

surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... L. Chandler | MIT News Office orange kripa@mit.edu Horizontal Professor Kripa Varanasi has developed ... Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control ...

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The Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing

another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ... skin of pumpkins. Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering ... a fundamental level by researchers at MIT. The underlying process is the same in all of these cases: Layers of ...

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Printable electronics

professor of chemical engineering and MIT’s associate provost. A stamp from tiny pen quills There have been ... MIT-Printed-Electronics-1-1024.jpg MIT researchers have fabricated a stamp made from forests of carbon nanotubes that is able to ... Engineers at MIT have invented a fast, precise printing process that may make such electronic surfaces an ...

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Using light to propel water

Communications, was developed by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, School of ... A new system developed by engineers at MIT could make it possible to control the way water moves ... separate water from oil at a drilling rig, the researchers say. MIT-pushingwater-1-1024.jpg A new system ...

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Researchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material

Environmental Science, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, MIT’s W.M. Keck Professor of Energy; Paula Hammond, the ... to explain them. MIT-Lithium-i-1024.jpg This series of photographs shows the chemical reaction that ... Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Now, a team at MIT has carried out detailed tests that seem to resolve the questions ...

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Testing new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professor Roger Kamm has ... States. In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs, MIT engineers have designed ... MIT-ALS-Model_1024.jpg MIT engineers created this model of the neuromuscular junction using motor neurons derived from ...

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