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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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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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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Affective Computing

Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Sculpting Evolution

Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Tools for mapping the molecular architecture and wiring of the brain

Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNA...
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When Are We Obligated To Edit Wild Creatures?

Given the power to alter the workings of the natural world, are we morally obligated to use it?
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Current CRISPR gene drive systems are likely to be highly invasive in wild populations

eLife 2018;7:e33423 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.33423
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I'm Kevin Esvelt, head of the Sculpting Evolution group at the MIT Media Lab and an inventor of CRISPR gene drive - AMA!

I'm a strong advocate of more open science, and my group tries to carefully consider our moral obligations and publicly admit mistakes.
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Gene Editing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Scientists are developing new ways to alter the genetic code of living organisms. John Oliver explores the risks and rewards.
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The public doesn’t trust GMOs. Will it trust CRISPR?

There’s a huge opportunity to improve agriculture with gene editing. But we need to give CRISPR a chance.
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Design Fiction

Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
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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
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Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology
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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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Fake meat, served six ways

By Joi ItoAround the time I turned 40, I decided to address the trifecta of concerns I had about climate change, animal rights, and ...
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Brainstorm: Anima Mundi

We'd like to introduce you to a very special neuroscience project that we are currently conducting in the setting of a traditional fine a...
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Neri Oxman and MIT develop digitally produced water-based renewable material

Neri Oxman and a group of researchers from the MIT Mediated Matter group have developed a water-based digital fabrication platform.
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Can we make life?

A revolution in gene editing enables scientists to create and edit DNA like never before.
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Center for Extreme Bionics

Center for Extreme Bionics
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Tools for Recording High-Speed Brain Dynamics

The brain is a three-dimensional, densely-wired circuit that computes via large sets of widely distributed neurons interacting at fast ti...
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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Antimicrobials to treat infectious diseases without leading to resistant bacteria

"Without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and m...
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Participatory Biotechnology

The development of biotechnologies since the era of recombinant DNA in the 1970s has occurred largely via the interaction of academic, in...
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Prototype Strategies for Treating Brain Disorders

New technologies for recording neural activity, controlling neural activity, or building brain circuits, may be capable someday of servin...
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Aotearoa: Mistakes and Amends

Researchers should hold themselves morally accountable for all of the consequences of their work. That can require publicly acknowledging...
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Archon: A fluorescent voltage indicator for imaging neural activity

Fluorescent sensor allows imaging of neurons' electrical communications, without electrodes
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A neurobiologist thinks big — and small

Ed Boyden advances on his goal of understanding how the brain works.
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Biotech breakthroughs and big ideas in 2018

Innovations are looming in food, medicine, brain-machine interfaces, sex, sleep, and do-it-yourself biology. That’s the picture we got fr...
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Chimeric CRISPR guides enhance Cas9 target specificity

Noah Jakimo, Pranam Chatterjee, Joseph M. Jacobson. Chimeric CRISPR guides enhance Cas9 target specificity, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/147686
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Making the body sing

A strange song, full of pumping percussion and instrumentals with random patterns, began to erupt from the speakers.David Sun Kong ’...
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Live from HUBweek 2017

Julie Kramer interviewed several participants at HUBweek 2017, including Community Biotechnology head David Sun Kong.
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Preventing Tick-Borne Disease by Permanently Immunizing Mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...
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MIT researchers propose release of genetically engineered mice on Nantucket

NANTUCKET, Mass. -- On the picturesque island of Nantucket, residents are considering a radical approach to fight a disease that's haunte...
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Water-Based Additive Manufacturing

This research presents water-based robotic fabrication as a design approach and enabling technology for additive manufacturing (AM) of bi...
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Open Source Estrogen

Biomolecules to biopolitics: hormones with institutional biopower! Open Source Estrogen combines do-it-yourself science, body and gender ...
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Synthetic Genome Engineering

We are currently developing novel DNA editing technologies to broaden the scope of genome engineering. Our strategy is based on identifyi...
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Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...
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David Kong at SB7.0

David Kong at the 7th International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
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Expansion Pathology

Enlarging clinical samples for imaging to understand the building blocks of pathologies with nanoscale precision
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Evolutron: Deep Learning for Protein Design

Technological advances in the past decade have allowed us to take a close look at the proteomes of living organisms. As a result, more th...
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Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields

Grossman N, Bono D, Dedic N*, Kodandaramaiah SB*, Rudenko A, Suk HJ, Cassara AM, Neufeld E, Kuster N, Tsai LH, Pascual-Leone A, Boyden ES (2017) Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields, Cell 169(6):1029-1041. (* equal contribution)
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Optogenetics: Tools for Controlling and Monitoring Neuronal Activity

T. Knopfel and E. Boyden, eds. (2012) Optogenetics: Tools for Controlling and Monitoring Neuronal Activity, Progress in Brain Research, vol. 196, Elsevier.
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A noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation

Electrodes placed on the scalp could help patients with brain diseases.
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New electrical brain stimulation technique shows promise in mice

A team of neuroscientists and engineers has devised a method that might achieve the best of both worlds: skipping the surgery while reachin