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Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Biplanar fluoroscopy (BiFlo) enables three-dimensional bone kinematics analysis using x-ray videos and bone geometry from segmented CT. H...
Looking beyond smart cities
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
Space Exploration Initiative
"Our device-driven research is directly inspired by the diseases of our family members and dear friends...indirectly by humanity at large."
Health 0.0
Beyond the Cradle
Fluorescent probe could allow scientists to watch circuits within the brain and link their activity to specific behaviors.
Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNA...
Enhancing human physical capability
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Arielle Duhaime-Ross talks to biohacker Josiah Zayner, Alex Pearlman, and Ling Ling Chang about norms, ethics, and regulation.
Virtual and augmented reality headsets are unique as they have access to our facial area, an area that presents an excellent opportunity ...
CE 2.0
This research track focuses on the use of computational (and experimental) techniques to understand the biomechanical behavior of human t...
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Community Biotechnology
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Real World Data (RWD) and Real World Evidence (RWE) are playing an increasing role in healthcare decisions to support innovative point-of...
K. Angelino, D. A. Edlund, P. Shah. Near-Infrared Imaging for Detecting Caries and Structural Deformities in Teeth. Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (2017). DOI: 10.1109/JTEHM.2017.2695194
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
The MAS.808 course perspective article published in Foresight was chosen as a winner by the editorial team, as it is one of the most exce...
Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life spa...
​The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroi...
We present a review paper that analyzes how early design decisions can affect the regulatory approval process downstream.
Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...
Center for Extreme Bionics
Lower-extremity amputees face a series of potentially serious post-operative complications. Among these are increased risk of further amp...
Recent advances in artificial limbs have resulted in the provision of powered ankle and knee function for lower extremity amputees and po...
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...
Recent advancements in orthopedic implants have made way for a new generation of bionic limbs that attach directly to the skeleton. Lever...
Lower-extremity amputation surgery has not seen significant change since the Civil War. This research is focused on the development of no...
During the gait cycle, the human ankle complex serves as a primary power generator while simultaneously stabilizing the entire limb. Thes...
Can a person look at a portable display, click on a few buttons, and recover his or her refractive condition? Our optometry solution comb...
​In the United States, there are an estimated 1.7 million people living with amputation, with that number expected to double by 2050. Com...
How will gene drive systems evolve once released into the wild? Can they be reliably overwritten and blocked by immunizing reversal drive...
We are providing our tools to the community, and also using them within our lab, to analyze how specific brain mechanisms (molecular, cel...
The brain is a three-dimensional, densely-wired circuit that computes via large sets of widely distributed neurons interacting at fast ti...
We have pioneered the development of fully genetically encoded reagents that, when targeted to specific cells, enable their physiology to...
New technologies for recording neural activity, controlling neural activity, or building brain circuits, may be capable someday of servin...
Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ...
Who should decide whether, when, and how to alter the environment? These are hard questions, especially when the decisions will impact pe...
In a paper published in PNAS, researchers at MIT and Harvard University describe a self-limiting gene drive system.
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Designing for, with, and by nature
Boyden is certainly a wellspring of innovative ideas—but more than this, he is a scientific pioneer.
Bernal, Guillermo, et al. "PhysioHMD: a conformable, modular toolkit for collecting physiological data from head-mounted displays." Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. ACM, 2018.
This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will...
Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...