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Uruguay wants to use gene drives to eradicate devastating screwworms

The project was inspired by a conversation with Media Lab Professor Kevin Esvelt, a pioneer in developing gene drives.
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Neurally Controlled Prosthesis in the News

News coverage of the neural control prosthetic from Biomechatronics group.
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Full neural control of a bionic limb to restore biomimetic gait after amputation

This project focuses on developing and integrating new powered prosthetic limbs, sensor systems, and surgical technologies to restore neura…
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Imaging method reveals new cells and structures in human brain tissue

The new imaging method is based on expansion microscopy, which was developed in Professor Ed Boyden’s lab in 2015.
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Neural hand prosthesis control test

Watch: Tech Briefs Magazine features a video of Dave Burke working with Media Lab Biomechatronics researcher Michael Fernandez.
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
Publication Research

Study of glutamate transporters and their AF2 predicted water-soluble QTY variants and uncovering the natural mutations L->Q, I->T, F->Y,

Karago ̈l A, Karago ̈l T, Smorodina E, Zhang S (2024) Structural bioinformatics studies of glutamate transporters and their AlphaFold2 predicted water-soluble QTY variants and uncovering the natural mutations of L->Q, I->T, F- >Y and Q->L, T->I and Y->F. PLoS ONE 19(4): e0289644.
Publication Research

Study of serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine transporters and their AF2 predicted water-soluble QTY variants and uncovering natural mutation
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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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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Neural Control of Upper Extremity Prostheses

Existing upper extremity prosthesis controllers have limited functionality and place high cognitive demands on users, both of which contrib…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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An implantable piezoelectric ultrasound stimulator (ImPULS) for deep brain activation

Precise neurostimulation can revolutionize therapies for neurological disorders. Electrode-based stimulation devices face challenges in ach…
Thesis Research

An implantable piezoelectric ultrasound stimulator (ImPULS) for selective deep brain activation

Hou, J. (2023). An implantable piezoelectric ultrasound stimulator (ImPULS) for selective deep brain activation [Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology]. MIT Media Lab.
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MicroPET: Investigation of Biodegradation of PET Plastics in Spaceflight

MicroPET is an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully programmable serial passaging and sampl…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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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…
Article Research

Video Friday: Robot, make me coffee

For Video Friday, IEEE Spectrum highlights a clip of Media Lab Biomechatronics researcher Michael Fernandez working with Dave Burke.
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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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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle
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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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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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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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Studying the evolution of gene drive systems

How will gene drive systems evolve once released into the wild? Can they be reliably overwritten and blocked by immunizing reversal drives?…
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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CRISPR gene drives and the future of evolution

Professor Kevin Esvelt talks to science journalist Hannah Thomasy about the power—and the risks—of biotechnology.
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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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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Publication Research

Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-Art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations

Shuvo, I. I., Shah, A., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations”, https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202100223, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 4, 2100223, 2022.
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Project Research

conformable Facial Code Extrapolation Sensor (cFaCES)

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

Wearable Digital Health Technology

Friend, Stephen H., Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, and Rosalind W. Picard. "Wearable Digital Health Technology." New England Journal of Medicine 389.22 (2023): 2100-2101.
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Mechanoneural interfaces for bionic integration

Shu, T., Herrera-Arcos, G., Taylor, C.R. et al. Mechanoneural interfaces for bionic integration. Nat Rev Bioeng (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-024-00151-y
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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New portable breast cancer scanner can fit in a bra

To help combat "interval" cancers, the Conformable Decoders group led by Prof. Dagdeviren, has developed a wearable ultrasound scanner.
Project Research

Life-Nanomachine Synergism

For more details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radica…
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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From Green Electronics to Gray Matter and Cyborg Cells

D. Sarkar, "From Green Electronics to Gray Matter and Cyborg Cells," in IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 22-25, Febraury 2023, doi: 10.1109/MNANO.2022.3228095.
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Abstract: JJ03.00008 : An Intracellular Antenna For Wireless Probing And Augmentation Of Living Cells*

Baju Joy. "Abstract: JJ03.00008 : An Intracellular Antenna For Wireless Probing And Augmentation Of Living Cells." APS March Meeting 2023, Volume 68, Number 3, Session JJ03: V: Emergent Properties of Complex Oxides Bulk, Thin Films, and Heterostructures V.
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conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask (cMaSK)

Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
Post Research

BBC 100 Women 2023: Canan Dagdeviren

Professor Dagdeviren was recognized for her work developing a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection.
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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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Guillermo Herrera-Arcos receives fellowships from K. Lisa Yang ICoN Center and Government of Mexico

Guillermo Herrera-Arcos from the Media Lab's Biomechatronics group has received two fellowships in support of his PhD.
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How to Grow (Almost) Anything - A New Model for Global Synthetic Biology Education

A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
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TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023: SeedLabs MicroPET

The SeedLabs MicroPET, which began as a Media Lab collaboration, was selected to TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023.
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Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology
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Making Sense of Helices: Right and Wrong Models in Science and Art

Martin Egli and Shuguang Zhang, Making Sense of Helices: Right and Wrong Models in Science and Art. MOLECULAR FRONTIERS JOURNAL l Volume 7 l 2023, 22 July 2023; doi:10.1142/S2529732523500086
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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CyberBiome

CyberBiome is a programmable bio-digital organ, a wearable biosynthesis platform for personalized, on-demand production of therapeutics and…
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Dr. Dagdeviren organized a "Smart Publishing" workshop at "Body Sensor Networks," IEEE BSN 20th International Conference on Wearable Tech

IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks – Sensors and Systems for Digital Health (IEEE BSN) is the premier conference in…
Publication Research

QTY code designed antibodies for aggregation prevention: A structural bioinformatic and computational study

QTY code designed antibodies for aggregation prevention: A structural bioinformatic and computational study
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Wearable ultrasound that could detect breast cancer developed by MIT

Prof. Canan Dagdeviren talks to CBS News about a wearable ultrasound device that could allow users to detect early changes in breast tissue.
Publication Research

Structural bioinformatics studies of outer membrane beta-barrel transporters and their AlphaFold2 predicted water-soluble QTY variants
Publication Research

CrMP‑Sol database: classification, bioinformatic analyses and comparison of cancer‑related membrane proteins and their water‑soluble variant
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Scalable biomimetic sensing system with membrane receptor dual-monolayer probe and graphene transistor arrays

RESENSA (Receptor S-layer Electrical Nano Sensing Array)- the device detects the same molecules that natural cell receptors do.
Article Research

The Loh Down on Science: Skin Deep

On "The Loh Down on Science," host Sandra Tsing Loh reports on research from the Conformable Decoders group.
Thesis Research

Resting State Neurophysiology of Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface in Persons with Transtibial Amputation

L. Chicos, D. Rangaprakash, R. Barry, H. Herr, Resting State Neurophysiology of Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface in Persons with Transtibial Amputation. under review at Nature Communications Medicine. (2023).
Article Research

Patches to the rescue

MIT Technology Review reports on transdermal drug delivery research from the Conformable Decoders group, led by Professor Canan Dagdeviren.
Project Research

Secure DNA

A world in which thousands of people can construct and release autonomous biological agents is unlikely to flourishProfessor Kevin Esvelt, …
Project Research

Miniaturized Neural System for Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery (MiNDS)

Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered…
Project Research

Flexible piezoelectric devices for gastrointestinal motility sensing

Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standard…
Project Research

Conformal Piezoelectric Mechanical Energy Harvesters: Mechanically Invisible Human Dynamos

Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life span …
Project Research

A tailored, electronic textile conformable suit for large-scale spatiotemporal physiological sensing in vivo

The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. Ho…
Project Research

Understanding Molecular Evolution

Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combinati…
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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 infe…
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Hugh Herr talks to the Boston Globe about the collaboration that led to a new amputation procedure

A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.