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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the lif...
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Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Part of a collaboration between the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma
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Mental health giants Headspace and Ginger to merge into $3 billion company

Congratulations to the team at Media Lab spinoff Ginger, which is merging with Headspace!
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When AI Recognizes Emotion, with Rosalind Picard

John Ellis talks to Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard about making AI and computers more emotionally intelligent.
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New device from MIT, Harvard can quickly detect COVID variants in saliva samples

The team talks to CBS Boston about their work on a low-cost tabletop device that can quickly detect SARS-CoV-2 using a saliva sample.
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New device can diagnose Covid-19 from saliva samples

The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Lockdowns reveal inequities in opportunities for walking activities

Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.
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Research Area | Rapid Fabrication and Deployment of Medical Devices and Technologies

We have significant expertise and motivation to bring problems from the clinic and society into the laboratory to develop novel bioengine...
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Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research in our laboratory reduces dependence on specialized medical imaging devices, biological and chemical processes and creates new p...
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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MIT J-WAFS awards eight grants in seventh round of seed funding

Ten principal investigators from seven MIT departments and labs receive MIT J-WAFS seed grants, including Health 0.0 director Pratik Shah.
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On-site Analysis of Foodborne Pathogens Using Density-Shift Immunomagnetic Separation and Culture

Foodborne pathogens are a major source of human morbidity, food recalls, and economic loss. Current detection methods for foodborne patho...
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FIGUR8 Raises $12 Million To Take The Guesswork Out Of Musculoskeletal Diagnostics

Forbes highlights spinoff Figur8 and its most recent funding round, which raised $12 million.
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Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes

We extend previous studies on the impact of masks on COVID-19 outcomes by investigating an unprecedented breadth and depth of health outc...
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Vida Decision Support System for COVID-19

Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University...
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Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology
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3D Printed Nasopharyngeal (NP) Swabs by OPT Industries, Inc. in response to the 2020 COVID-19 Crisis

Dr. Jifei Ou, who received his PhD and graduated from the Tangible Media group in 2019, started a company called OPT Industries, Inc...
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A better nasal swab for Covid-19 testing

MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products.
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Supercomputers help researchers speed drug discovery for Covid-19

An MIT research team is using supercomputers to help develop a drug to treat the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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Comprehensive report on pandemic response solutions developed by 180 leading experts

Online platform harnesses collective intelligence to accelerate recovery from Covid-19 and prepare for future disease outbreaks.
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Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread

Doorley, R.M., Berke, A., Noyman, A., Alonso, L.A., Ribo, J., Arroyo, V., Pons, M. and Larson, K., 2021. Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread. medRxiv.
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Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MI...
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Paper cards and digital codes target vaccination chaos

An MIT-developed vaccination card aims to cut through vaccine distribution chaos while preserving patient privacy.
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We lost to SARS-CoV-2 in 2020. We can defeat B-117 in 2021

Esvelt and Lipsitch lay out a path for slowing the spread of B.1.1.7, and ensuring that we're better prepared for future pandemics.
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MASKproject: Open standard respirator, N95 alternative face mask

Designed for mass manufacture and rapid deployment, we are building an open hardware, reusable, sterilizable, modular, and filter-media a...
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Technology-Enabled Mobile Phone Screenings Augment Routine Primary Care

We have developed a new process to screen patients at the point-of-care with FDA-approved technology-enabled mobile health screenings (TE...
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Targeted intracellular degradation of SARS-CoV-2 via computationally optimized peptide fusions

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has elicited a global health crisis of catastrophic proportions. With ...
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Experimental peptide targets Covid-19

Computational modeling yields a protein fragment that could bind to coronavirus spike proteins and destroy them.
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Technology-enabled examinations evaluated jointly with routine health screenings: an observational study at the 2015 Kumbh Mela in India

P. Shah*, G. Yauney*, O. Gupta, V. Patalano II, M. Mohit, R. Merchant, SV Subramanian. BMJ Open (2018). 8:e018774. PMID: 29678964 * Equal contribution
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Computational histological staining and destaining of prostate core biopsy RGB images with generative adversarial neural networks

Aman Rana, Yauney G, Lowe A, Shah P. IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (2018) (Conference acceptance rate: 14%). DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00133
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AI Methods for Rapid Automated Staining and Destaining of Tissue Biopsies in Hospitals

General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ...
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Digital Clinical Trials with Novel Machine Learning and AI Architectures

Dr. Shah was an invited speaker and a contributor at The National Cancer Policy Forum developed workshop series at the The National Acade...
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Democratizing prosthetic and diabetic care: A resilient model for healthcare delivery

We are engineering a better healthcare system for people with diabetes and limb loss such that we can physically bridge gaps to...
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Safe Paths

Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology tha...
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Split Learning: Distributed and collaborative learning

Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: ...
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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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FAQ: Could exposure to the common cold reduce the severity of Covid-19 infection?

Read the FAQ that accompanies the op-ed by Kevin Esvelt and Carolyn P. Neuhaus, which answers questions about the research they're proposing
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Could exposure to the common cold reduce the severity of Covid-19 infection?

We don’t know, but the idea is hardly crazy—and if the answer is yes, we could save many lives long before a vaccine arrives
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Identifying the human impacts of climate change

Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these poten...
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Pandemic Supermind Activation

The Pandemic Supermind Activation brings together leaders in the biosciences and beyond, harnessing the power of ...
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Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ...
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Reusable, N95 alternative face mask developed by a collaborative team hits production

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the need for PPE, a diverse team came together to produce the "Open Standard Respirator, Model 1"
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Contact Tracing Technologies: Methods and trade-offs

Alex Berke and Kent Larson, City Science group, MIT Media Lab (2020).
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Informing Covid-19 preparedness in Sierra Leone

MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform work with the government of Sierra Leone to conduct rapid-response surveys.
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MIT Sloan research shows adaptive networks promote better collective intelligence

Study cautions against using static org charts during COVID-19 crisis.
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The coronavirus pandemic reawakens bioweapon fears

Kevin Esvelt and other experts talk to Axios about the risk of, and potential defenses against, engineered pathogens.
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The perfect privacy storm

New issues in privacy debate with technology and contact-tracing.
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Latest weapon in tracing and tracking coronavirus infections: your smartphone

Your phone soon might know if you have spent time near someone with the COVID-19 virus.
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Designer molecular mops: Water-soluble cytokine receptors fused with Fc domain of IgG may be therapeutic for cytokine storms

In April 2019, Shuguang Zhang's lab started to use the QTY code to design a class of water-soluble cytokine receptors, including interfer...
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QTY code designs for water-soluble beta-barrel transmembrane proteins

In collaboration with Prof. Tao Fei’s lab (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)In addition to a large number of membrane proteins that co...
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QTY CXCR4 becomes more hydrophilic and retains cell signaling activity

In collaboration with Prof. Horst Vogel and Dr. Horst Pick (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland).G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are vital fo...
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The QTY code: A simple tool for protein design

Structure and function studies of membrane proteins, particularly G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and multipass transmembrane protein...
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Proteins may halt the severe cytokine storms seen in Covid-19 patients

Team designs antibody-like receptor proteins that can bind to cytokines, as possible strategy for treating coronavirus and other infections.
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Clever cryptography could protect privacy in Covid-19 contact-tracing apps

Researchers are racing to achieve the benefits of location-tracking without the surveillance.
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3 Questions: Catherine D’Ignazio on visualizing Covid-19 data

“Data scientists and visualization designers need to take their civic role very seriously in a pandemic,” says the MIT assistant professor.