This is your brain under anesthesia
For the first time, researchers, including the associate director of IMES, were able to observe, in extra-fine detail, how neurons behave as consciousness shuts down. When you are awake, your neurons talk to each other by tuning into the same electrical impulse frequencies. One set might be operating in unison…
Read MoreScientists invent catheter system to deliver electricity-activated glue path
Researchers, including an IMES faculty member, have developed a new type of adhesive that works in wet environments and hardens when a voltage is applied to it. A team of researchers, including a core faculty member at IMES, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has developed a device…
Read MoreNano flashlight enables new applications of light
Design of miniature optical systems could lead to future cell phones that can detect viruses and more. In work that could someday turn cell phones into sensors capable of detecting viruses and other minuscule objects, MIT researchers, including a principal research scientist from the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science…
Read MorePaula Hammond and Arup Chakraborty named Institute Professors
The two chemical engineers, including the IMES founding director, are awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor. Two distinguished MIT chemical engineers, Arup K. Chakraborty and Paula Hammond, have been named Institute Professors, the highest honor bestowed upon MIT faculty members. Hammond, who chairs MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, is renowned for…
Read MoreAlex Shalek receives Avant-Garde (DP1 Pioneer) Award from the National Institute for Drug Abuse
Alex K. Shalek, a core faculty member of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), an associate professor of Chemistry, and an extramural member of The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, has been honored with an Avant-Garde (DP1 Pioneer) Award from the National Institute for…
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