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Project Research

Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the lif...

in Community Biotechnology
David S. Kong · Desiree Dudley
#health #member company #technology +3 more
Project Research

Pandemic Supermind Activation

The Pandemic Supermind Activation brings together leaders in the biosciences and beyond, harnessing the power of ...

in Community Biotechnology
Desiree Dudley · David S. Kong
#member company #public health #covid19
Project Research

Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optica...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Project Research

Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MI...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Alex Berke +3 more
#data #government #public health +2 more
Project Research

Research Area | Rapid Fabrication and Integration of Medical Devices and Technologies

Dr. Shah and his research lab at MIT has significant expertise and motivation to bring problems from the clinic and society into the labo...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#bioengineering #developing countries #sensors +7 more
Project Research

AI Methods for Rapid Automated Staining and Destaining of Tissue Biopsies in Hospitals

General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#artificial intelligence #health #pharmaceuticals +7 more
Project Research

On-site Analysis of Foodborne Pathogens Using Density-Shift Immunomagnetic Separation and Culture

Foodborne pathogens are a major source of human morbidity, food recalls, and economic loss. Current detection methods for foodborne patho...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#food #health #public health
Project Research

Democratizing prosthetic and diabetic care: A resilient model for healthcare delivery

As developers of prosthetic technology, we’re dedicated to understanding the challenges that people with limb loss face, not just after a...

in Biomechatronics
Hugh Herr · Joel Huegel +7 more
#health #primary healthcare #public health +4 more
Project Research

Vida Decision Support System for COVID-19

Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University...

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood
#public health #data science #covid19
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

in City Science
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Kent Larson +9 more
#design #architecture #data +15 more
Project Research

3D Printed Nasopharyngeal (NP) Swabs by OPT Industries, Inc. in response to the 2020 COVID-19 Crisis

Dr. Jifei Ou, who received his PhD and graduated from the Tangible Media group in 2019, started a company called OPT Industries, Inc...

in Tangible Media
Jifei Ou · Hiroshi Ishii
#manufacturing #3d printing #alumni +3 more
Project Research

MASKproject: Open standard respirator, N95 alternative face mask

Designed for mass manufacture and rapid deployment, we are building an open hardware, reusable, sterilizable, modular, and filter-media a...

in Biomechatronics
Che-Wei Wang · Matthew Carney
#manufacturing #public health #materials +1 more
Project Research

Technology-Enabled Mobile Phone Screenings Augment Routine Primary Care

We have developed a new process to screen patients at the point-of-care with FDA-approved technology-enabled mobile health screenings (TE...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#health #imaging #primary healthcare +3 more
Project Research

Targeted intracellular degradation of SARS-CoV-2 via computationally optimized peptide fusions

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has elicited a global health crisis of catastrophic proportions. With ...

in Molecular Machines
Pranam Chatterjee · Manvitha Ponnapati +1 more
#biology #public health #engineering +1 more
Project Research

Digital Clinical Trials with Novel Machine Learning and AI Architectures

Dr. Shah was an invited speaker and a contributor at The National Cancer Policy Forum developed workshop series at the The National Acade...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#artificial intelligence #synthetic biology #machine learning +5 more
Project Research

Safe Paths

Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology tha...

in Camera Culture · Sculpting Evolution
Ramesh Raskar · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +1 more
#artificial intelligence #communications #data +7 more
Project Research

Split Learning: Distributed and collaborative learning

Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: ...

in Camera Culture
Praneeth Vepakomma · Ramesh Raskar
#data #privacy #machine learning +4 more
Project Research

Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +30 more
#robotics #design #art +14 more
Project Research

Designer molecular mops: Water-soluble cytokine receptors fused with Fc domain of IgG may be therapeutic for cytokine storms

In April 2019, Shuguang Zhang's lab started to use the QTY code to design a class of water-soluble cytokine receptors, including interfer...

in Molecular Machines
Shuguang Zhang · Rui Qing +1 more
#biology #public health #medicine +1 more
Project Research

QTY code designs for water-soluble beta-barrel transmembrane proteins

In collaboration with Prof. Tao Fei’s lab (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)In addition to a large number of membrane proteins that co...

in Molecular Machines
Shuguang Zhang
#biology #public health #medicine +1 more
Project Research

QTY CXCR4 becomes more hydrophilic and retains cell signaling activity

In collaboration with Prof. Horst Vogel and Dr. Horst Pick (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland).G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are vital fo...

in Molecular Machines
Shuguang Zhang
#biology #public health #medicine +1 more
Project Research

The QTY code: A simple tool for protein design

Structure and function studies of membrane proteins, particularly G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and multipass transmembrane protein...

Shuguang Zhang · Rui Qing +2 more
#biology #public health #medicine +1 more
Project Research

SoapCam

SoapCam is a WIP Human Computer Interaction system that motivates proper hand washing routines."Hand hygiene is the most important measur...

Ariel Noyman
#human-computer interaction #public health #gesture interface +1 more
Project Research

MoCho: Mobility choices and societal impacts

MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pr...

in City Science
Ronan Doorley · Ariel Noyman +1 more
#architecture #transportation #urban planning +3 more
Project Research

The Future of Neuroimplantable Devices: A materials science and regulatory perspective

​The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroi...

in Conformable Decoders
Farita Tasnim · Canan Dagdeviren
#design #bioengineering #health +4 more

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