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Why does the literature need a standardized pH sensing protocol?

Sensing and monitoring pH can convey critical information about brain tumors.
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Watch water droplets dance across a surface using electricity

Cool things happen when you control water with a computer.
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Frequently Asked Questions: Miniaturized Neural System for Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery
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Neri Oxman: TED Talk

Design at the Intersection of Technology and Biology
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A neurobiologist thinks big — and small

Ed Boyden advances on his goal of understanding how the brain works.
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Biotech breakthroughs and big ideas in 2018

Innovations are looming in food, medicine, brain-machine interfaces, sex, sleep, and do-it-yourself biology. That’s the picture we got from…
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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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Ultrathin needle can deliver drugs directly to the brain

A miniaturized system that can deliver tiny quantities of medicine to brain regions as small as 1 cubic millimeter
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Programmable droplets

Using electric fields to manipulate droplets on a surface could enable high-volume, low-cost biology experiments.
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Nanoscale Imaging of Biomolecules in Zero G

Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a new imaging modality developed by MIT Media Lab's Synthetic Neurobiology group. ExM allows biomolecules to …
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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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David Kong at SB7.0

David Kong at the 7th International Meeting on Synthetic Biology