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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +65 more
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis

#robotics #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +15 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy

#robotics #design #architecture +35 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing

For more details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/We are developing nano-devices using meta-m...

in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek
Deblina Sarkar
#synthetic biology #nanoscience
Project Research

Ultra-sensitive electrical biosensors for point-of-care applications

For more details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Sensors, especially biosensors, are indispensabl...

in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek
Deblina Sarkar
#synthetic biology #nanoscience
Article Research

Flat transistor defies the limit

The finding opens up avenues to the development of integrated circuits that have extremely low power consumption.

via Nature · Sept. 30, 2015
in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek
#nanoscience
Article Research

With the HUMANS project, a message that space is for everyone

Supported by the Space Exploration Initiative, the student-run HUMANS project aims to increase global representation in space.

via MIT News · July 20, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#art #space #community +3 more
Project Research

Ultra-scalable and energy-efficient nanoelectronics

For more details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Electronics are ubiquitous in today’s world, wit...

in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek
#synthetic biology #engineering #nanoscience
Project Research

Life-Nanomachine Synergism

For more details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radi...

in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek
#synthetic biology #nanoscience
Project Research

conformable Facial Code Extrapolation Sensor (cFaCES)

AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&n...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · Lin Zhang +2 more
#design #bioengineering #health +10 more
Project Research

A tailored, electronic textile conformable suit for large-scale spatiotemporal physiological sensing in vivo

The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · Irmandy Wicaksono
#design #bioengineering #consumer electronics +13 more
Post Research

Frequently Asked Questions: A tailored, electronic textile conformable suit for large-scale spatiotemporal physiological sensing in vivo

Oct. 15, 2020
in Conformable Decoders
#design #consumer electronics #health +7 more
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Synthetic Neurobiology

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations

#art #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +24 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Optogenetics: Molecules enabling neural control by light

We have pioneered the development of fully genetically encoded reagents that, when targeted to specific cells, enable their physiology to...

in Synthetic Neurobiology
Edward Boyden
#bioengineering #health #neurobiology +1 more
Archived
Project Research

Nanoscale mapping of bio-molecular building blocks of brain

For more details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/For understanding the brain structure, it is nec...

in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek
#synthetic biology #nanoscience
Article Research

Ed Boyden wins prestigious Wilhelm Exner Medal

Entrepreneurial science award recognizes scientists whose work opens up “new dimensions of economic progress."

via MIT News · March 18, 2020
in Synthetic Neurobiology
#neurobiology #nanoscience
Article Research

Deblina Sarkar joins the MIT Media Lab faculty

New research group aims to bridge the gap between nanotechnology and synthetic biology.

via MIT News · Feb. 19, 2020
in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek
#synthetic biology #nanoscience

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