POSTS TAGGED AS MIT

Programmable Fibers for Artificial Muscle

Artificial muscle that curlswhen warmed
Artificial muscles are of interest in both industrial (robotic) and medical (prosthetic) technology.  On that subject, [MORE]

Using CRISPR for Diagnostic Devices

 
CRISPR to edit DNA gels
MIT and Harvard researchers have used CRISPR to edit DNA in gels making new types of [MORE]

A Microfluidics Sensor that Detects Sepsis in 25 Minutes

Microfluidics sensor for sepsis
Interleukin 6 in a blood sample indicates the body’s response to infection.  Knowing this, MIT engineers have [MORE]

DNA Microscopy

DNA microscopy determines molecule location
White blood cells produce antibodies and the antibodies produced can change by a single letter change [MORE]

Inhaling mRNA

Cystic fibrosis nebulizer treatment
Cystic fibrosis is a terrible suffocating disease for both children who are afflicted and parents who suffer [MORE]

Artificial Liver for Testing RNAi-Based Drugs

MIT Liver model
In making a living hepatic device, MIT researchers were able to mimic a human liver’s microenvironment.  They then [MORE]

Electricity via WiFi

MITs Rectenna
The idea of transmitting electricity through air sounds like science fiction, but researchers at MIT have demonstrated how that [MORE]

Ingestible Digestion Monitor

Ingestible pill monitor
Ingestible sensors have to work in a tough neighborhood—the stomach. For that reason, MIT engineers have created a [MORE]

Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 in Cartilage Regeneration

MIT Cartilage Drug Delivery
Insulin growth factor-1 has previously been shown to support joint cartilage, but getting IGF-1 to an arthritic [MORE]

Injectable Electronic “Cells”

Felice Frankel, MIT Producing cell size robots
This isn’t a “Fantastic Voyage,” but it takes some inspiration from that 1966 movie.  [MORE]

Wirelessly Controlled “pill”

MIT Wireless pill
For the past two years, researchers at MIT have been improving the design and capabilities of an ingestible [MORE]

Remote Controlled Surgical Devices in the Planning

Magnetic activators
MIT researchers have created a magnetic ink and used it to 3-D print a surgical tool prototype that can [MORE]

Cell Sized Injectable Sensing Robots

 
MIT nanomachines
MIT engineers are building some extremely small electronic devices, with the idea of putting billions of them in the [MORE]

Living, Ingestible Biosensor

Ingestible sensor for GI tract
Engineers at MIT have built a 1.5”ingestible capsule with electronics and engineered E. coli to detect bleeding and other [MORE]