Engineers at MIT and Harvard University have made a novel facial area mask that can diagnose the wearer with Covid-19 in just about 90 minutes. The masks are embedded with little, disposable sensors that can be equipped into other confront masks and could also be tailored to detect other viruses. […]
Day: July 4, 2021
3 Questions: Anna Jagielska on printing artificial axons | MIT News
Tens of millions of people worldwide suffer from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and Lou Gehrig’s disease — but no effective treatments exist for these conditions. Research Scientist Anna Jagielska of the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering thinks repairing the myelin wrapping around axons is […]
Anders Sejr Hansen awarded prestigious Pew-Stewart Grant for Cancer Research | MIT News
Anders Sejr Hansen, assistant professor of biological engineering at MIT, has been named a Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Exploration for 2021. The Pew-Stewart Scholars Application for Cancer Analysis is a countrywide initiative developed to assistance promising early-vocation experts whose exploration will accelerate discovery and advance development towards a heal for […]