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Breaking through the mucus barrier

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... a hospital.  A new drug capsule developed at MIT may one day be able to replace those injections. The capsule ... injected. Shriya Srinivasan, a research affiliate at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ...

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An inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight

Monday, December 2, 2024 Anne Trafton | MIT News Horizontal MIT engineers led by Professor Giovanni ... wear off as the stomach becomes used to the sensation of fullness. To overcome that limitation, MIT ... deflated in between meals,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at ...

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Tunneling Across a Tiny Gap

Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... gaps. Now researchers at MIT, the University of Oklahoma, and Rutgers University have developed a model ... MIT-Heat-Transfer 1024.jpg This illustration depicts phonons "tunneling" from one lattice of sodium ...

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Big Range of Behaviors for Tiny Graphene Pores

says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Karnik says graphene ... keep cells healthy and stable. Now researchers at MIT have created tiny pores in single sheets of ... cells. MIT-Graphene-Pores 1024.jpg Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Each graphene pore is less than ...

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Scientists Tune Polymer Material’s Transparency

through.  Now MIT scientists have come up with a theory to predict exactly how much light is transmitted ... inflated like a balloon.  MIT-Color-Composites-1024.jpg Three colors of PDMS — a widely used rubbery, ... shows the PDMS material before being inflated. The bottom row shows the PDMS inflated, revealing the MIT ...

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Fast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease

Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This technique really opens a door so that ... 2017 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal New technique developed by Assistant Professor Ming Guo ... rather stiff. MIT-Cell-Moves 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a way to assess a cell’s mechanical ...

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Ingestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly

applications,” says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ... Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule ... transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user’s smartphone. MIT-Wireless-Pill 1024.jpg ...

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Technique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold

an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the ... scattering, but it also reduces imaging resolution. MIT-Subcutaneous-Superresolution-1024.jpg MIT researchers ... researchers at MIT have developed a technique to use the effect to their advantage. The new technique, which ...

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“Nanofiber yarn” makes for stretchy, protective artificial tissue

assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “With this nanofiber yarn, the hope is, you won’t have ... heal. Now MIT engineers have come up with a tissue engineering design that may enable flexible range of ... motion in injured tendons and muscles during healing. MIT-Nano-Yarn-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed ...

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How to speed up the discovery of new solar cell materials

Joule, in a paper by MIT research scientist Shijing Sun, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ... painstaking. MIT-AI-Solar-PRESS 1024.jpg Diagram depicts the sequence of steps used in the new streamlined ... Now, a team of researchers at MIT and several other institutions has accelerated the process of ...

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Making catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals

Nature Catalysis, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of ... research at MIT could open the door to ways of making certain catalysts more active, and thus enhancing the ... carbon dioxide into fuels. MIT-Enhancing-Electro-01-PRESS.jpeg This diagram illustrates the new process ...

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Closing 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 ... to a wide range of photolithography systems. MIT-Neural-Lithography-01_0.jpg Researchers from MIT and ... of electronics. Credits: MIT News; iStock “This idea sounds simple, but the reasons people haven’t ...

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Robotic palm mimics human touch

from a robot. Why? Most of them don't have palms. 1024MIT-GelPalm.png MIT CSAIL student Sandra Q. ... Liu displays her innovative GelPalm robotic design in her lab workspace. Credit: Michael Grimmett/MIT ... ongoing Herculean effort. Now, a new robotic hand design developed in MIT's Computer Science and ...

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Wrinkle Predictions

an assistant professor of mathematics at MIT. “Could you, in principle, predict these patterns? It’s ... microlenses.   MIT-Patterning-Fingerprints460x305.jpg MIT researchers have developed a mathematical equation ... Norbert Stoop Now a team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has developed a mathematical theory, ...

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New Kind of “Tandem” Solar Cell Developed

sunlight. Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a new kind of solar cell that combines ... in solar-power installations, the researchers say. MIT-Tandem-Solar 1024-.jpg Photo by Felice Frankel ... control circuit. The new findings are reported in the journal Applied Physics Letters by MIT graduate ...

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Reducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy

But a team of MIT researchers aims to fix that. By using a clever combination of two inexpensive ... bounces off. The findings appear in the journal Nature Communications, in a paper by associate professor ... Mahmoudi, and former postdoc Md Nasim Hyder. MIT-Cutting-Herbicide-1_1024.jpg A team of researchers, ...

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Study: Some catalysts contribute their own oxygen for reactions

of these observed catalytic activities is not well-understood. Now, a team at MIT has shown that in ... are being reported this week in the journal Nature Chemistry, in a paper by recent MIT graduate ... Binghong Han PhD ’16, postdoc Alexis Grimaud, Yang Shao-Horn, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy, and six ...

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Living sensors at your fingertips

Robert N. Noyce Career Development associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the group’s ... Engineers and biologists at MIT have teamed up to design a new “living material” — a tough, ... up in the presence of certain chemicals. MIT-living-hydro_1024.jpg Researchers have found that the ...

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Working out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle

their own creations. They’re strong, soft, full of water, and resistant to fatigue. A new study by MIT ... through a vigorous workout. MIT-Hydrogel-Muscles-1024.jpg A mechanically trained artificial muscle resists ... for medical implants, drug coatings, and other applications, says Xuanhe Zhao, an associate professor ...

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Motion-Induced Quicksand

MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... deposited, they form a relatively stable mound, much like a solid. Ken Kamrin, an assistant professor of ... mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ...

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