PhD student Emma Gibson is working to improve diagnostic services in Malawi. “We have the tools” to treat diseases like HIV, she says. “But in resource-limited settings, we often lack the money, the staff, and the infrastructure to reach every patient.”
“Additive manufacturing can make a big difference in the future of space hardware,” says Luis Fernando Velásquez-García, whose team has 3D printed sensors for satellites. Such sensors could help scientists predict the weather or study climate change.
With the advent of DNA sequencing and other techniques, computational biologist Bonnie Berger is using computer science and mathematics to tease insights from a deluge of biological information. The theme of her work, she says, is “data, data, data.”
A study of cancer cells’ responses to drug-delivering nanoparticles could help in designing nanoparticles to target specific cancers. “We are learning how surface chemistry and other material properties play a role in targeting,” Paula Hammond says.
A material called cubic boron arsenide may be the best semiconductor ever found, researchers say. A new study shows it has some major advantages over silicon, the workhorse of technologies from solar cells to computer chips.
Via @mitathletics on Instagram: “Congratulations to the 36 members of @girlsintheboat who were named to the @patriotleague Academic Honor Roll on Monday!”
Lavender Tessmer, a doctoral candidate in architecture, has developed a new active fiber and designed a process that — combined with a specific knit textile architecture — uses heat to activate a mask to conform to an individual’s face.