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Membrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis
Ming Guo, a lead author of the study and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Guo’s ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers led by Associate Professor Ming Guo have found that a biological membrane ... basement membrane, a material that itself has been tricky for scientists to characterize. Now MIT engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/membrane-around-tumors-may-be-key-preventing-metastasisCrystan McLymore SM ’23: Exceling at sea and in the lab
mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... | Bottom Right: Crystan McLymore, left, with Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical ... Credit: Tony Pulsone In the lab of Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical engineering, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crystan-mclymore-sm-%E2%80%9923-exceling-sea-and-labA climate window in the Southern Ocean
a lot of carbon and heat in the interior ocean,” says John Marshall, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor ... of Oceanography at MIT. “The Southern Ocean is the window by which the interior of the ocean connects ... to the atmosphere above.” Marshall and Kevin Speer, a professor of physical oceanography at Florida ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climate-window-southern-oceanHigh-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
a drop of milk in mid-splash, taken by the late MIT professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton, who invented ... ubiquitous,” says study author Lydia Bourouiba, a professor in the MIT departments of Civil and Environmental ... launch them into the air. Now MIT scientists have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-videos-show-what-happens-when-droplet-splashes-poolAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
adaptation,” says Navid Azizan, who is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in the MIT ... target, MIT researchers developed a new, machine learning-based adaptive control algorithm that could ... MIT researchers developed a new adaptive control system that could help autonomous drones stay on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environmentsThe Power of Salt
Latif Jameel Professor of Water and Food at MIT, along with Mostafa Sharqawy of King Fahd University of ... MIT study investigates power generation from the meeting of river water and seawater. Where the ... according to a team of mechanical engineers at MIT. The researchers evaluated an emerging method of power ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-saltStents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract
an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... structures, MIT engineers and their collaborators have designed a new type of stent that could be used to ... Babaee, an MIT research scientist, is the lead author of the paper, which appears today in Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stents-inspired-paper-cutting-art-can-deliver-drugs-gi-tractPushing the limits of athletic performance
Anette (Peko) Hosoi, professor and associate department head for operations in MIT’s Department of ... says. With that insight, Hosoi founded the Sports Technology Group, now known as MIT 3-Sigma Sports ... (formerly STE@M). MIT 3-Sigma Sports aims to solve the biggest engineering problems across sports. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-limits-athletic-performanceFaculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak
“The behavior is influenced, and often dominated by, the interfaces,” says MIT assistant professor of ... completed his doctoral studies at MIT with Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics John D. Joannopoulos. ... at MIT with Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman. Kolpak’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-alexie-kolpakThe challenges and triumphs of the graduate experience
For many graduate students, the first time they enter MIT’s campus as a student is a momentous ... occasion. Standing among the pillars and domes for the first time as an MIT student elicited a moment of ... Gallant ’08, SM ’10, PhD ’13, associate professor of mechanical engineering. “It’s by definition ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/challenges-and-triumphs-graduate-experienceIn Search of a Major She Loves
traditional or direct path to mechanical engineering at MIT — she switched majors twice, determined to find ... the many academic opportunities MIT offers, Magzoub has kept her sights set on developing practical ... assumed she would attend a local university for college, but she decided to apply to MIT. Once she was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/search-major-she-lovesLeveraging computational tools to enhance product design
advised by Maria Yang, a professor in mechanical engineering at MIT and the MIT D-Lab faculty academic ... Uganda. For this project, she is working with Yang, Dan Sweeney at MIT D-Lab and Sili Deng, a professor of ... As an undergraduate at MIT, Jana Saadi had to find a way to fulfill her humanities class ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leveraging-computational-tools-enhance-product-designUnderstanding and treating disease
Helmholtz Career Development Professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. “Rather than ... 0.1 percent,” says Associate Professor Domitilla Del Vecchio. “It’s not really at the point that you ... therapies to treat it. Diagnosing disease Understanding disease starts with the cell. Assistant Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-and-treating-diseaseTeaching mechanical engineering in a pandemic
history. Well before MIT announced its plans for fall semester in early July, faculty and teaching staff ... housemates, or in the dorms.” Like Hanumara and the 2.75 teaching team, faculty and staff across MIT have had ... nature of many mechanical engineering classes posed a unique challenge for faculty and staff in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-mechanical-engineering-pandemicHow cytoplasm “feels” to a cell’s components
team, led by Ming Guo, the Brit and Alex d'Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT ... MIT have found that these organelles and other intracellular components may experience the surrounding ... at MIT, who will join Guo’s lab as a graduate student this fall. Other co-authors include Yulong Han, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cytoplasm-%E2%80%9Cfeels%E2%80%9D-cell%E2%80%99s-componentsHow to float your coffee creamer
engineering, John Bush, professor of applied mathematics in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, and Gareth ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Education Horizontal A new study from Professor Gareth ... what if the two liquids didn’t mix? MIT scientists have now explained why under certain conditions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-float-your-coffee-creamerMeasuring cancer cell “fitness” reveals drug susceptibility
Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering ... Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal New research from Professor Scott Manalis ... By studying both the physical and genomic features of cancer cells, MIT researchers have come up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measuring-cancer-cell-%E2%80%9Cfitness%E2%80%9D-reveals-drug-susceptibilityMini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip
MIT’s new mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals ... developer Benjamin Katz, a technical associate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The ... in the lab of Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering. Kim says loaning mini ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mini-cheetah-first-four-legged-robot-do-backflip-0Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
engineers at MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to control ... the approach as an MIT postdoc. “Now if you want to open a heavy door, the human can command the robot ... assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has detailed the approach in a study ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-and-jumpingHealing with hydrogels
children with limited motor skills inspired Yuk to apply to MIT for graduate school to build robots for use ... in rehabilitation. Shortly after being accepted into MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, ... Yuk received an email from a new faculty member, Xuanhe Zhao, now professor of mechanical engineering ...
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