In the Media

"A Hub medical-miracle team is working on a breakthrough that may someday lead to a 'smart heart' — implant-ready artificial tissue rigged with super-sensitive triggers that could sound an alarm when a patient’s ticker is off-kilter, and possibly even fix the faux organ without so much as a call to the doctor."

"Scientists are working on a futuristic tissue engineering venture to grow better solutions for damaged or missing organs."

"Automated assistance may soon be available to neuroscientists tackling the brain’s complex circuitry, according to research presented last week at the Aspen Brain Forum in Colorado."

"All the funds raised for the presidential and Congressional races so far pale in comparison to the money expected to rush in after the party conventions this week and next."

"Reimer and a team of MIT researchers studied the behavior of 108 Greater Boston drivers. About half acknowledged frequent phone use when driving; the rest said they rarely used their phones behind the wheel."

"In a study published this spring in Nano Letters, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported developing injectable nanoscale particles containing all the biological equipment needed to produce proteins."

"A new material developed at Harvard and MIT adds a distinctly cybernetic element to the science of tissue engineering."

"Bad news for those comforted by laws that restrict cell phone use while driving: it’s not the technology causing the problems, it’s the aggressive, bad drivers, a new report from MIT suggests."

"After all, if we need to raise revenue, why not just tax global-warming pollution?"

"There is clearly a good deal of variation in the inherent predictability of tropical cyclone track from one case to another."-MIT's Kerry Emanuel

"The electronic glitch that cost Knight Capital Group $440m points to a new threat to our digital economy: technological risk."

"Two economic myths drive support for the ethanol mandate."

"I can’t even imagine life without writing, so inextricably is it a part of my life, almost like breathing, or eating, or any of the things you need to keep alive. I think it is the impulse to find some kind of design or order in the chaos of life, over which one has so little control." -MIT's Anita Desai

"The biggest gains for American manufacturing will come not from replacing humans, but from using robots to help people do their best work." -MIT's Julie Shah

"Despite the ongoing national political dissension over climate change, Boston and Cambridge, among other cities around the world, are searching for ways to cope with its effects."