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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Next-Generation Protein Vaccines Against Infectious Diseases

The gram-positive cocci Streptococcus pneumoniae causes pneumonia, otitis media, meningitis, and bacteremia in pediatric, elderly, and im...
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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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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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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...
Publication Research

Medical professionals offering innovative solutions to some of the industry’s most pressing problems
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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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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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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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Design Fiction

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

Community Biotechnology
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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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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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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...
Article Research

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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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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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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Sculpting Evolution

Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
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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...
Article Research

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...
Publication Research

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.
Article Research

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