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Gastronomy and Beyond

Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
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Media Lab research featured in MIT News 2025 highlights

MIT Media Lab–connected research, people, and community moments shaped headlines and campus life throughout 2025.
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Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal Honored with Marie Curie Legacy Medal at New York Ceremony

Institut Curie honors Susan Blumenthal with Marie Curie Medal for leadership in women’s health and cancer research.
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‘AIDS amnesia’ is putting women’s lives at risk

Dr. Susan Blumenthal calls for increased funding and education to combat the mistaken belief that HIV is no longer a major health threat.
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WHx: Transforming Women’s Health—2025 Donor Report
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WHx

WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
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Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing

Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Media Lab on Bloomberg: Conversations on Technology, Women's Health, and Human Potential

Media Lab researchers share insights on innovation, technology, and health in recent interviews featured on Bloomberg Businessweek.
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
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Fmr. US Assistant Surgeon General, Susan Blumenthal on Closing the Women’s Health Gap

Fmr. US Assistant Surgeon General Dr. Susan Blumenthal on fixing the women's health gap, maternal care, and innovation in US health policy.
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Microscopic Tech at Forefront of Treating Women's Health Issues

MIT Media Lab's Deblina Sarkar develops nano implants to treat brain diseases, advancing women's health through the WHx program.
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AI, Wearable Tech Helping Treat Women's Health Issues

Canan Dagdeviren on how WHx, AI, and wearable tech are advancing early, personalized care and closing gaps in women’s health.
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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Textile-Based Ultrasound Wearable Wins MIT HEALS Innovator Grant

Canan Dagdeviren and Dava Newman receive MIT HEALS Innovator Grant for developing a textile-based wearable for breast health monitoring.
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Wearable Tech to Improve Women's Health Research

MIT’s Rosalind Picard: Wearables can revolutionize women’s health, yet today’s devices reflect just a fraction of the potential.
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Anku Rani and Shrihari Viswanath awarded Tata Center Fellowship

The fellowship supports students pursuing impactful technological solutions for communities in resource-constrained settings.
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Radical treatment for pain and neurodegenerative diseases

Radical treatment for pain and neurodegenerative diseases
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Technology for Women’s Health

Technology for Women’s Health
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BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
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Conformable Decoders Featured on NBC Boston for Wearable Breast Cancer Detection Research

NBC Boston spotlights the Conformable Decoders group research in a segment titled “MIT Developing Bra to Detect Breast Cancer," highlightin…
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Dava Newman receives Prevent Cancer Foundation Visionary Award on behalf of Media Lab's Women's Health Program

The Carolyn “Bo” Aldigé Visionary Award recognizes the MIT Media Lab's groundbreaking research in advancing women's health.
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Earth Mission Control (EMC)

Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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3 Questions: Catherine D’Ignazio on data science and a quest for justice

Catherine D’Ignazio, a Media Lab alum and current professor in the MIT Department of Urban Studies + Planning, talks about her new book.
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Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch (cUSBr-Patch) for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
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conformable Ultrasound Patch (cUSP) For Cavitation-Enhanced Transdermal Drug Delivery

Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
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Dava Newman: Inventing better futures at the MIT Media Lab

Director Dava Newman talks with ILP as part of their Faculty Feature, discussing her work at the MIT Media Lab.
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Theme | Health + Wellness

An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
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Canan Dagdeviren is named as the Falling Walls Foundation's Global Call Winner

She was selected for her work on breast cancer detection in the Engineering + Technology category.
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AstroAnt

"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
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Dare to Dream: An Ultrasound Bra For Breast Health with Dr. Canan Dagdeviren

Canan Dagdeviren talks to Sharon Kedar about the latest generation of the wearable ultrasound scanner Conformable Decoders is developing.
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This ultrasound bra could detect cancer sooner

Inspired by her aunt’s battle with cancer, Canan Dağdeviren developed a wearable ultrasound monitor that can screen women between checkups.
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SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
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conformable Facial Code Extrapolation Sensor (cFaCES)

AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&nbs…
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Essence

The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We p…
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Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI)

Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception,…