Empowering impoverished artisans through fashion
Soko uses a mobile-based supply chain to give artisans in Kenya access to the fashion world.
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New CRISPR tool opens up more of the genome for editing
Enzyme can target almost half of the genome’s “ZIP codes” and could enable editing of many more disease-specific mutations.
Scientists alter membrane proteins to make them easier to study
By making hydrophobic sections water-soluble, researchers hope to learn more about protein structures.
A new twist on airplane wing design
“Morphing” wing could enable more efficient plane manufacturing and flight.
President Serzh A. Sargsyan of Armenia visits MIT
Tour includes meeting with MIT President L. Rafael Reif, visit to Media Lab.
3 Questions: Neil Gershenfeld and the spread of Fab Labs
Ten years after launching Fab Lab, the project’s founder describes the program’s research, global impact.
Making things for fun
From restoring a Volkswagen bus to designing collapsible bridges, Spencer Wilson finds fun in engineering.
Senior Spencer Wilson named Marshall Scholar
Mechanical engineering major will attend Cambridge University next year for graduate study.
MIT’s Mobile Fab Lab participates in White House Maker Faire
Obama tours MIT-developed trailer containing digital fabrication, design, and manufacturing tools.
New ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
Nanostructured material based on repeating microscopic units has record-breaking stiffness at low density.
Affordable precision printing for pros
MIT spinout Formlabs brings high-resolution, low-cost 3-D printing to makers, engineers and designers.
Growing a business, from the lab
MIT researcher Shuguang Zhang’s nanofiber-scaffold technology became the foundation for a biotech company.
Objective reality: 3-D printing gains traction at MIT
MIT Libraries are offering an IAP session (already full) and a brown-bag lunch talk on 3-D printing — technology MIT helped develop years ago that is now entering the mainstream.
How to make big things out of small pieces
Researchers invent a new approach to assembling big structures — even airplanes and bridges — out of small interlocking composite components.