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www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This for…
Living Bits : Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Living Microorganisms in Human-Computer InteractionThere are trillions of living…
State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually ass…
The world uses an estimated 100 million mice in laboratory research experiments each year. These experiments are monitored and regulated to…
Congratulations to Pat Pataranutaporn, Angela Vujic, David Kong, Pattie Maes, and Misha Sra!
P. Pataranutaporn, A. Jain, C. M. Johnson, P. Shah and P. Maes, "Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device," 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, 2019, pp. 3327-3332. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857479
Our capacity to re-engineer the biological world raises questions that need answers before it gets too late
Lab on Body, Synthetic Biology, and Bio-Digital Systems for Health and Human Enhancement
David Sun Kong discusses the mission of the Community Biotechnology Initiative on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast.
Canan Dagdeviren creates flexible ultrathin systems to decode the patterns of disease.
Although significant progress is being made in identifying pH sensing materials and device configurations, a standard protocol for be…
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is interfa…
Designing Wearables for Space Exploration
Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communication…
Joi Ito talks to Walter Isaacson about AI, ethics, biotech, and how being a DJ prepared him to become the director of the Media Lab.
The 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list includes at least three members of the Media Lab community.
Biomechatronics researcher Tyler Clites and Synthetic Neurobiology researcher Fei Chen are among the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees.
Cryptography techniques to screen synthetic DNA could help prevent the creation of dangerous pathogens, argues Professor Kevin Esvelt
Sensing and monitoring pH can convey critical information about brain tumors.
Cool things happen when you control water with a computer.
Design at the Intersection of Technology and Biology
Ed Boyden advances on his goal of understanding how the brain works.
Innovations are looming in food, medicine, brain-machine interfaces, sex, sleep, and do-it-yourself biology. That’s the picture we got from…
Scientists have created a hair-thin implant that can drip medications deep into the brain by remote control and with pinpoint precision.
A miniaturized system that can deliver tiny quantities of medicine to brain regions as small as 1 cubic millimeter
Using electric fields to manipulate droplets on a surface could enable high-volume, low-cost biology experiments.
Getting in Touch with Your Inner Stomach: An ingestible and flexible piezoelectric device enables sensing of changes in the GI tract.
David Kong at the 7th International Meeting on Synthetic Biology