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Article Research

Episode 85: Innovation at the Edge

David Sun Kong discusses the mission of the Community Biotechnology Initiative on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast.

via Mass Cultural Council · July 30, 2019
in Community Biotechnology
#art #learning + teaching #community +1 more
Article Research

Designing medical devices to bend with the body

Canan Dagdeviren creates flexible ultrathin systems to decode the patterns of disease.

via MIT ILP · July 17, 2019
in Conformable Decoders
#wearable computing #biotechnology
Project Research

A Protocol to Characterize pH Sensing Materials and Systems

​Although significant progress is being made in identifying pH sensing materials and device configurations, a standard protocol for be…

in Conformable Decoders
Mohamed Tarek · Canan Dagdeviren
#health #biotechnology
Project Research

Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is interfa…

in Fluid Interfaces
Harpreet Sareen · Pattie Maes
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +9 more
Post Research

Space Health Wearables

Designing Wearables for Space Exploration

April 28, 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#health #wearable computing #space +2 more
Project Research

Cyborg Botany: Augmented plants as sensors, displays, and actuators

Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communication…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Harpreet Sareen
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +7 more
Article Research

Joi Ito of MIT discusses complex moral issues in new tech

Joi Ito talks to Walter Isaacson about AI, ethics, biotech, and how being a DJ prepared him to become the director of the Media Lab.

via PBS · March 12, 2019
in Director's Office
#artificial intelligence #ethics #biotechnology
Post Research

Congratulations to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees

The 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list includes at least three members of the Media Lab community.

Nov. 13, 2018
in Center for Civic Media · Biomechatronics · Synthetic Neurobiology +2 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #neurobiology +4 more
Article Research

A 29-Year-Old CEO Who's Shaking Up Diagnostics & Other Stories From The 2019 Healthcare 30 Under 30

Biomechatronics researcher Tyler Clites and Synthetic Neurobiology researcher Fei Chen are among the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees.

via Forbes · Nov. 13, 2018
in Biomechatronics · Synthetic Neurobiology
#neurobiology #biomechanics #biotechnology
Article Research

Taming "information hazards" in synthetic biology research

Cryptography techniques to screen synthetic DNA could help prevent the creation of dangerous pathogens, argues Professor Kevin Esvelt

via MIT News · Oct. 4, 2018
in Sculpting Evolution
#biology #biotechnology
Post Research

Why does the literature need a standardized pH sensing protocol?

Sensing and monitoring pH can convey critical information about brain tumors.

Sept. 20, 2018
in Conformable Decoders
#health #biotechnology
Article Research

Watch water droplets dance across a surface using electricity

Cool things happen when you control water with a computer.

via Popular Science · May 1, 2018
in Tangible Media
#design #human-computer interaction #art +1 more
Post Research

Frequently Asked Questions: Miniaturized Neural System for Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery

Jan. 24, 2018
in Conformable Decoders
#health #biotechnology
Post Research

Neri Oxman: TED Talk

Design at the Intersection of Technology and Biology

March 18, 2018
in Mediated Matter
#design #architecture #biotechnology
Article Research

A neurobiologist thinks big — and small

Ed Boyden advances on his goal of understanding how the brain works.

via Quanta Magazine · Jan. 18, 2018
in Synthetic Neurobiology
#synthetic biology #biotechnology
Article Research

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 from…

via Neo.life · Jan. 4, 2018
in Community Biotechnology
#synthetic biology #biotechnology
Article Research

Tiny implant opens way to deliver drugs deep into the brain

Scientists have created a hair-thin implant that can drip medications deep into the brain by remote control and with pinpoint precision.

via Washington Post/AP · Jan. 24, 2018
in Conformable Decoders
#bioengineering #health #neurobiology +2 more
Article Research

Ultrathin needle can deliver drugs directly to the brain

A miniaturized system that can deliver tiny quantities of medicine to brain regions as small as 1 cubic millimeter

via MIT News · Jan. 24, 2018
in Conformable Decoders
#health #biotechnology
Article Research

Programmable droplets

Using electric fields to manipulate droplets on a surface could enable high-volume, low-cost biology experiments.

via MIT News · Jan. 19, 2018
in Tangible Media
#biotechnology
Article Research

Science Translational Medicine journal features our recent paper, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, as an Editors' Choice article

Getting in Touch with Your Inner Stomach: An ingestible and flexible piezoelectric device enables sensing of changes in the GI tract.

via Science Translational Medicine · Nov. 9, 2017
in Conformable Decoders
#bioengineering #health #sensors +1 more
Article Research

David Kong at SB7.0

David Kong at the 7th International Meeting on Synthetic Biology

Aug. 15, 2017
in Community Biotechnology
#synthetic biology #biotechnology

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