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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.

Sept. 20, 2018
in Conformable Decoders
#health #biotechnology
Article Research

Watch water droplets dance across a surface using electricity

Cool things happen when you control water with a computer.

via Popular Science · May 1, 2018
in Tangible Media
#design #human-computer interaction #art +1 more
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Frequently Asked Questions: Miniaturized Neural System for Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery

Jan. 24, 2018
in Conformable Decoders
#health #biotechnology
Post Research

Neri Oxman: TED Talk

Design at the Intersection of Technology and Biology

March 18, 2018
in Mediated Matter
#design #architecture #biotechnology
Article Research

A neurobiologist thinks big — and small

Ed Boyden advances on his goal of understanding how the brain works.

via Quanta Magazine · Jan. 18, 2018
in Synthetic Neurobiology
#synthetic biology #biotechnology
Article Research

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…

via Neo.life · Jan. 4, 2018
in Community Biotechnology
#synthetic biology #biotechnology
Article Research

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.

via Washington Post/AP · Jan. 24, 2018
in Conformable Decoders
#bioengineering #health #neurobiology +2 more
Article Research

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

via MIT News · Jan. 24, 2018
in Conformable Decoders
#health #biotechnology
Article Research

Programmable droplets

Using electric fields to manipulate droplets on a surface could enable high-volume, low-cost biology experiments.

via MIT News · Jan. 19, 2018
in Tangible Media
#biotechnology
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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 …

in Space Exploration Initiative
Jeong Seuk Kang
#imaging #space #biotechnology +1 more
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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.

via Science Translational Medicine · Nov. 9, 2017
in Conformable Decoders
#bioengineering #health #sensors +1 more
Article Research

David Kong at SB7.0

David Kong at the 7th International Meeting on Synthetic Biology

Aug. 15, 2017
in Community Biotechnology
#synthetic biology #biotechnology

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