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Living Bits

Living Bits : Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Living Microorganisms in Human-Computer InteractionThere are trillions of livi...
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Hybrid Living Materials

Hybrid Living Materials (HLMs) are formed by combining living and non-living materials such that the resulting composites take on the fun...
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Nano-implants for energy harvesting and wireless sensing

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

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

The Wanderers were unveiled as part of the exhibition: ‘The Sixth Element: Exploring the Natural Beauty of 3D Printing' on display ...
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Living Mushtari

How can we design relationships between the most primitive and the most sophisticated life forms? Can we design wearables embedded with ...
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Water-soluble transmembrane protein receptors with exchangeable and tunable ligand affinity

There are 20 chemokine receptors that bind their respective chemokines. It is not currently understood how these structurally similar rec...
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Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Real World Data (RWD) and Real World Evidence (RWE) are playing an increasing role in healthcare decisions to support innovative use of E...
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Silk Pavilion II

What are radically sustainable methods for knitting, making and building in the age of the Anthropocene? How can humankind and members of...
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Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
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Totems

Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...
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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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Theme | Wearable Biotech Enhancement

Lab on Body, Synthetic Biology, and Bio-Digital Systems for Health and Human Enhancement
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Mice Against Ticks - 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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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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Gemini

Gemini—an acoustical “twin chaise"—spans multiple scales of the human existence extending from the warmth of the womb to the stretches ...
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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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Maiden Flight

Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...
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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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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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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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Daisy Drives

Who should decide whether, when, and how to alter the environment? These are hard questions, especially when the decisions will impact pe...
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Silk Pavilion

The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales.The primary ...
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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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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...