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Beyond the Cradle
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Shu, T., Herrera-Arcos, G., Taylor, C.R. et al. Mechanoneural interfaces for bionic integration. Nat Rev Bioeng (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-024-00151-y
Looking beyond smart cities
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
To help combat "interval" cancers, the Conformable Decoders group led by Prof. Dagdeviren, has developed a wearable ultrasound scanner.
Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
Enhancing human physical capability
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
For more details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radica…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Space Exploration Initiative
Designing for, with, and by nature
D. Sarkar, "From Green Electronics to Gray Matter and Cyborg Cells," in IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 22-25, Febraury 2023, doi: 10.1109/MNANO.2022.3228095.
Baju Joy. "Abstract: JJ03.00008 : An Intracellular Antenna For Wireless Probing And Augmentation Of Living Cells." APS March Meeting 2023, Volume 68, Number 3, Session JJ03: V: Emergent Properties of Complex Oxides Bulk, Thin Films, and Heterostructures V.
Existing upper extremity prosthesis controllers have limited functionality and place high cognitive demands on users, both of which contrib…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
Professor Dagdeviren was recognized for her work developing a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection.
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Guillermo Herrera-Arcos from the Media Lab's Biomechatronics group has received two fellowships in support of his PhD.
A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
The SeedLabs MicroPET, which began as a Media Lab collaboration, was selected to TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023.
We present the "MicroPET" mission, consisting of an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully program…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Community Biotechnology
Martin Egli and Shuguang Zhang, Making Sense of Helices: Right and Wrong Models in Science and Art. MOLECULAR FRONTIERS JOURNAL l Volume 7 l 2023, 22 July 2023; doi:10.1142/S2529732523500086
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
CyberBiome is a programmable bio-digital organ, a wearable biosynthesis platform for personalized, on-demand production of therapeutics and…
IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks – Sensors and Systems for Digital Health (IEEE BSN) is the premier conference in…
QTY code designed antibodies for aggregation prevention: A structural bioinformatic and computational study
Prof. Canan Dagdeviren talks to CBS News about a wearable ultrasound device that could allow users to detect early changes in breast tissue.
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
RESENSA (Receptor S-layer Electrical Nano Sensing Array)- the device detects the same molecules that natural cell receptors do.
On "The Loh Down on Science," host Sandra Tsing Loh reports on research from the Conformable Decoders group.
L. Chicos, D. Rangaprakash, R. Barry, H. Herr, Resting State Neurophysiology of Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface in Persons with Transtibial Amputation. under review at Nature Communications Medicine. (2023).
MIT Technology Review reports on transdermal drug delivery research from the Conformable Decoders group, led by Professor Canan Dagdeviren.
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered…
Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standard…
Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life span …
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. Ho…
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…
A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.
StyleFlexible; Individual projects (teamwork can also be possible upon the wish of students).To pass, you must: (i) attend at least 3/…
Canan Dağdeviren, head of the Conformable Decoders research group, discusses her time at the MIT Media Lab and where her research is headed.
Media Lab alum Tomás Vega talks to ZDNet about MouthPad, a Bluetooth-enabled mouthpiece that enables hands-free control of digital devices.
7NEWS talks to Fluid Interfaces alum Tomás Vega and his Augmental co-founder Corten Singer about their bluetooth-enabled mouthpiece.
Catch David S. Kong on Joe Blair's Epic Human Podcast, as he discusses his mission to empower communities through biotechnology.
This collaboration explores the intersection of plants and tech, from WALL-E to Media Lab alum Harpreet Sareen’s Cyborg Botany projects.
Lower-extremity amputees face a series of potentially serious post-operative complications. Among these are increased risk of further amput…
A pandemic-fueled transformation of the MIT course "How to Grow (Almost) Anything" leads to next steps in democratizing synthetic biology
Nature Review Molecular Cell and Biology 23, 166 (2022).
Biophysical Journal 2022, S0006-3495(22)00476-3. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.06.017.
Linus Pauling agreed to the word "helix" instead of spiral, the rise of the alpha-helix, by extension, the ‘double helix’ structure of DNA.
Chem. Rev. 2022, 122, 18, 14085–14179 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00757