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Episode 85: Innovation at the Edge

David Sun Kong discusses the mission of the Community Biotechnology Initiative on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast.
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Designing medical devices to bend with the body

Canan Dagdeviren creates flexible ultrathin systems to decode the patterns of disease.
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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…
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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…
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Space Health Wearables

Designing Wearables for Space Exploration
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Why does the literature need a standardized pH sensing protocol?

Sensing and monitoring pH can convey critical information about brain tumors.
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Watch water droplets dance across a surface using electricity

Cool things happen when you control water with a computer.
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Frequently Asked Questions: Miniaturized Neural System for Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery
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Neri Oxman: TED Talk

Design at the Intersection of Technology and Biology
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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 from…
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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.
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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
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Programmable droplets

Using electric fields to manipulate droplets on a surface could enable high-volume, low-cost biology experiments.
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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.
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David Kong at SB7.0

David Kong at the 7th International Meeting on Synthetic Biology