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Smart textiles sense how their users are moving
Researchers develop a comfortable, form-fitting fabric that recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping.
Ancient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT
Building and working a clay-and-grass furnace, teachers and students learn more than how to turn ore into metal.
Better living through multicellular life cycles
Researchers reveal how an algae-eating bacterium solves an environmental engineering challenge.
Tissue model reveals key players in liver regeneration
By tracing the steps of liver regrowth, MIT engineers hope to harness the liver’s regenerative abilities to help treat chronic disease.
At the forefront of building with biology
Ritu Raman leads the Raman Lab, where she creates adaptive biological materials for applications in medicine and machines.
Robotic lightning bugs take flight
Inspired by fireflies, researchers create insect-scale robots that can emit light when they fly, which enables motion tracking and communication.
New model helps identify mutations that drive cancer
The system rapidly scans the genome of cancer cells, could help researchers find targets for new drugs.
Robert Langer wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Institute Professor honored for groundbreaking work in nucleic acid delivery and nanoparticles.
Artificial neural networks model face processing in autism
A new computational model could explain differences in recognizing facial emotions.
MIT-Northpond Program created to advance innovation in engineering and life sciences
The five-year collaboration aims to accelerate the translation of breakthrough engineering and biology for human health.
MIT announces 2022 Bose grants for ambitious ideas
Tenth anniversary of the program rewards three innovative projects.
Could used beer yeast be the solution to heavy metal contamination in water?
A study shows that yeast, an abundant waste product from breweries, can filter out even trace amounts of lead.
An astrophysicist in a biomedical universe
Magdelena Allen is developing a highly sensitive brain PET scanner that can help answer fundamental questions in neuroscience and particle physics.
New CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function
Jonathan Weissman and collaborators used their single-cell sequencing tool Perturb-seq on every expressed gene in the human genome, linking each to its job in the cell.