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“Plug and Play” Modular Devices

 
Plug and play diagnostic devices
MIT’s “Little Devices Lab” has created a modular approach for making simple and inexpensive diagnostic devices [MORE]

CRISPR Versatility

HHMI Investigator Jennifer Doudna and Colleagues Created DETECTR
CRISPR is best known as a gene editing technology, but this report adds [MORE]

Bandage Delivers Timed Medications

Prototype of Smart Bandage
Quoting directly: “Imagine if a wound dressing could release fresh doses of medication over time, oreven different [MORE]

Making Disease Sensors from Stacked Antibodies

MIT Antibody Sensor
This piece reports: “In the research by MIT chemical engineers, molecular self-assembly was used to build sensors containing [MORE]

How Neural Organization Develops in an Infant

fMRI
Infants, younger than four months, have multipurpose brains that have not yet specialized in processing information such as facial recognition. [MORE]

Automated Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Since Hippocrates’ time, medicine has depended on “feature sets” (i.e. symptoms patients presented) to give a physician some degree [MORE]

A Patch of Nanorods and Spheres to Treat Tumors

Triple Attack Hydrogel Cancer Patch
MIT bioengineers have developed a patch of nanoparticles that can be attached to a tumor or [MORE]

Echolocation Shoes for the Blind

MIT Echolocation Shoes
James Holman’s name is little remembered today, but it should be, especially because of this piece. Holman (1786-1857) [MORE]

An Ingestible Origami Robot

Origami Robot MIT
Quoting directly: “Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are designing an ingestible robot that could be used [MORE]

Programmable RNA Vaccines

Vaccine Injection
The thought of creating vaccines from nucleic acids has existed for a generation, but now MIT investigators seem to [MORE]

Nanoparticles for Converting White Fat to Brown

MIT Obesity NanoParticle
In proof-of-concept work, researchers at MIT have shown that novel polymer nanoparticles, loaded with two known anti-obesity drugs, [MORE]

Extended Release Pill that Attaches to the GI Tract

MIT GI Tract Drug Delivery
Research engineers at MIT have devised a two-sided pill, where one side sticks to mucosal tissue [MORE]

Implantable Capsule for Diabetes

MIT-Diabetes-Stem Cell
Islet cell transplantation has been tried for several years in treating Type 1 diabetes, but the body’s immune response [MORE]

Highly Secure Active RFID Tags

RFID Chip
Hospitals are major consumers of RFID tags for supply chain management, but these electronic tags also serve as real [MORE]