POSTS TAGGED AS Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 A Wearable that Allows ALS Sufferers to Communicate

ALS patients communicate with a wearable sensor
From MIT’s Media Lab:  “The wearable includes a silicone film that contains four piezoelectric [MORE]

Squeezing Cells Promotes Faster Organoid Growth

 
Grow organoids faster by squeezing them
MIT engineers have found that compressing different cells in hydrogel causes them to differentiate and [MORE]

Intestinal Film Blocks Glucose Uptake in T1 Diabetes

Self-assembling film blocks glucose absorption in GIT
“The researchers [at MIT] found that if dopamine is combined with a small amount [MORE]

Automated Flow Chemistry for Protein Synthesis

Muscle protein synthesis signaling cascades
“MIT chemists have devised a protocol to dramatically reduce the amount of time required to generate [MORE]

Remotely Activated Neurodiscs for Neuron Stimulation

Nanodiscs
“Using magnetic modeling and electron holography, we predict and experimentally demonstrate magnetic vortex states in an array of colloidally synthesized [MORE]

Implantable Cell Factories Produce Insulin

MIT developing living drug factories
This piece describes how MIT engineers have taken liver cells, converted them to insulin producing cells [MORE]

Automating Decision Making

AI to identify vocal cord nodules
“A new MIT-developed model automates a critical step in using AI for medical decision making, [MORE]

Hydrogen Powered Nano Batteries

MIT Nano-Battery
At present, battery size is a limiting factor in developing medical devices on the micro and nano scale.  However, [MORE]

Smart Pills with Tiny Needles

Smart pills with tiny needles
In a foreseeable future, insulin injections, vaccinations and IV drips might be replaced with smart pills [MORE]

Automated Mammogram Reading

Mammogram showing dense and fatty breasts
It’s not uncommon for radiologists to batch mammogram images and then examine them at the [MORE]

Wearable Wrist Device for Monitoring Blood Glucose

MIT Device to detect blood glucose non-invasively
“Developed by researchers from MIT, the device uses a technique called Raman spectroscopy to [MORE]

Preserving Blood to Isolate CTCs

Liquid biopsy
Several advanced diagnostics for circulating tumor cells exist—such as single cell qPCR, digital PCR and RNA sequencing—but limiting their [MORE]

Body Powered Devices

Self-powered pacemaker fueled by piezoelectric energy harvester
A pacemaker needs only fifty-millionths of a watt to function; a smartphone can run [MORE]

Powering Brain Implants with Radio Waves

Wireless charging of medical devices
“Scientists at MIT have developed a wireless system that can power tiny implantable devices in the body, [MORE]