Healing with hydrogels
Inspired by personal tragedy, graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk used his background in soft materials to develop a bioadhesive tape for repairing damaged tissue.
Widening metal tolerance for hydrogels
MIT graduate student Seth Cazzell shows controlling pH enables reversible hydrogel formation in wider range of metal concentrations.
Team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale
It’s not quite the Ant-Man suit, but the system produces 3-D structures one thousandth the size of the originals.
Promoting passage through mucus
Molecular charges affect peptide transport, MIT postdoc Leon Li demonstrates
Sugars serve a vital function in mucus
MIT postdoc Thomas Crouzier discovers a substitute that restores water absorption.
Faculty highlight: Katharina Ribbeck
Dissecting the inner workings of the mucus barrier could yield better drugs, prevent disease
New injectable gels toughen up after entering the body
These more durable gels could find applications in drug delivery and tissue engineering.
New technique predictably generates complex, wavy shapes
May help improve drug delivery and explain natural patterns from brain folds to bell peppers.