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MIT Media Lab researchers developed a portable ultrasound sensor for earlier breast cancer detection, expanding access to screening.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Marcus, C.*, Nayeem, M. O. G.*, Shah, A., Hou, J., Viswanath, S., Eusebio, M., Sadat, D., Chandrakasan, A. P., Ozmen, T., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Real-Time 3D Ultrasound Imaging with an Ultra-Sparse, Low Power Architecture”, Advanced Healthcare Materials, 0:e05310, 2026
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Enhancing human physical capability
Canan Dagdeviren on how WHx, AI, and wearable tech are advancing early, personalized care and closing gaps in women’s health.
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
CyberBiome is a programmable bio-digital organ, a wearable biosynthesis platform for personalized, on-demand production of therapeutics and…
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
Technology for Women’s Health
Dana Rubin’s Ribogen recognized with top honors at the ICLR AI for Nucleic Acids event in Singapore.
RNA is a fundamental biomolecule that stands at the intersection of modern biology and the origins of life. It carries genetic instruc…
Assessing the safety of Far-UVC – an emerging technology for airborne pathogen control.
Examining the role of air sampling in pathogen biosurveillance.
Justen, L. (2025). Llms outperform experts on challenging biology benchmarks (No. arXiv:2505.06108). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.06108
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic underscored the crucial importance of enhanced indoor air quality control measures to mitigate the spread of …
The technology, which achieves single-cell resolution, could help in continuous, noninvasive patient assessment to guide medical treatments.
The MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition aims to support female faculty entrepreneurs in biotechnology.
We are excited to share that our Conformable Decoders research group was recently featured on WCVB Channel 5's "Chronicle." The segment hig…
The devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain and possibly treat disease.
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
As part of a biosensing device without wires, the antennas could help researchers decode intricate electrical signals sent by cells.
For details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radical too…
These devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain, and might even help restore some brain function.
AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&nbs…
“We have standard operating procedures for emergencies, and everyone knew what to do,” Dagdeviren says.
Media Lab alum, Dr.Joy Buolamwini spoke to IEEE Spectrum about her work and her recent book, Unmasking AI.
Designing for, with, and by nature
A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of BSN, this special panel discussion is set to unveil the intricate journey of wearable computing a…
IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks – Sensors and Systems for Digital Health (IEEE BSN) is the premier conference in…
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered…
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…
Wearables are being widely researched for monitoring individual's health and wellbeing. Current generation wearable devices sense an indivi…
MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, has developed an alternative to palm oil,
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a new imaging modality developed by MIT Media Lab's Synthetic Neurobiology group. ExM allows biomolecules to …
Shara Ticku, CEO of MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures class, talks to Fast Company.
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.
A pandemic-fueled transformation of the MIT course "How to Grow (Almost) Anything" leads to next steps in democratizing synthetic biology
Using a new technology, researchers hope to create better control systems for prosthetic limbs.
A capsule that tunnels through mucus in the GI tract could be used to orally administer large protein drugs such as insulin.
MIT researchers describe an intracellular antenna that's compatible with 3D biological systems + can operate wirelessly inside a living cell
Creating technology for social change
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a…
David Sun Kong speaks with NEO.LIFE about science, activism, and how biotechnology can empower ordinary people.
Our traditional manufacturing, fabrication, and electronics have been centered around synthetic and completely artificial techniques. Comin…
Alum Harpreet Sareen writes about how humans might form a type of symbiosis with the plant kingdom in the future.
"Augmented" is a Nova PBS documentary episode that premiers Wednesday, 2/23, featuring Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr.
Boston Magazine looks at 10 recent biomedical innovations created by local researchers, including the AMI procedure.