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Miniaturized Neural System for Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery (MiNDS)

Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...
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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
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Flexible piezoelectric devices for gastrointestinal motility sensing

Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standa...
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How the body could power pacemakers and other implantable devices

Batteries wear out, but breathing, sweat and body heat might provide alternative fuel.
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Vomit Comet Physiology: Autonomic Changes in Novice Flyers

Johnson, K.T., Taylor, S., Fedor, S., Jaques, N., Chen, W., Picard, R.W. "Vomit Comet Physiology: Autonomic Changes in Novice Flyers." Proceedings of the International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2018.
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Surgical technique improves sensation, control of prosthetic limb

New study describes first human implementation of novel approach to limb amputation.
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Detecting Biomarkers with Printable Paper Diagnostics

Paper diagnostics can be used for affordable and scalable biomarker detection. We propose new methods for stabilizing cellulose-based imm...
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Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
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Tiny implant opens way to deliver drugs deep into the brain

Scientists have created a hair-thin implant that can drip medications deep into the brain by remote control and with pinpoint precision.
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Launching a lab

How Canan Dagdeviren is going about setting up a new research group at the Media Lab.
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Meet the YellowBox

The Conformable Decoders group is now home to a state-of-the-art cleanroom called the "YellowBox."
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Materials Research Society (MRS) Bulletin highlighted our recent GI paper from Nature Biomedical Engineering

Piezoelectric sensors have many applications including as vibration sensors, accelerometers, energy harvesters, and even electronic drum pad
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Science Translational Medicine journal features our recent paper, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, as an Editors' Choice article

Getting in Touch with Your Inner Stomach: An ingestible and flexible piezoelectric device enables sensing of changes in the GI tract.
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Synthetic Apiary

The Synthetic Apiary proposes a new kind of environment, bridging urban and organismic scales by exploring one of the most important orga...
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Forget Me Not: The Botany of Desire & Loss

Nothing triggers memories like smell. Momentary, fleeting, and at times unexpected, one scent can conjure up the warmth of a grandparent...
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Human Perfume

I am currently creating perfumes that capture the smell of individuals who have emotional significance to me. An exploration in the use ...
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Brain-Controlled Interface for the Motile Control of Spermatozoa

The reproductive organs of the female body have long been a site of contention, where opposing ideologies in religion, politics, and cult...
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Synthetic Genome Engineering

We are currently developing novel DNA editing technologies to broaden the scope of genome engineering. Our strategy is based on identifyi...
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Scientists Made Music From the Human Microbiome, and It’s Seriously Cool

There are many mysteries of human biology. Among those perhaps least considered, what do our bodies sound like?This was the question on t...
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Voters to decide on intro of altered mice to combat Lyme

Residents are invited to weigh in on a plan to release genetically-modified mice on Nantucket to combat tick-borne diseases
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Cracking the Genetic Code with Kevin Esvelt

Kevin Esvelt leads the Sculpting Evolution Group at MIT. Their work explores “evolutionary and ecological engineering and responsive science
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Tranceflora—Amy's Glowing Silk

We collaborated with NIAS (National Institute of Agricultural Science) to genetically engineer silkworms to develop new kinds of silk for...
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
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How to build characters that have the everyday common sense, the ability to learn, and the sense of empathy that one finds in animals such as dogs.
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eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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How to enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment.
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Grassroots Invention

How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
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Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
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Physics and Media

How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.

How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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How to improve mobility with higher-quality and lower-power-consumption display technology.
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How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
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Spatial Imaging
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How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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Nanoscale Sensing

How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.
How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
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How to give computers "common sense"�the ability to think about the everyday world as people do.
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How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy. For more Physical Language Workshop projects, see Henry Holtzman.
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How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
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quanta

How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.
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Optogenetics: Hardware Enabling Neural Control by Light

We have developed a set of "optogenetic" reagents: fully genetically encoded reagents that, when targeted to specifi...
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CATRA: Mapping of Cataract Opacities Through an Interactive Approach

We introduce a novel interactive method to assess cataracts in the human eye by crafting an optical solution that measures the perceptual...
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