The global rise in antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health, damaging the ability to fight deadly infections such as tuberculosis. The efforts to develop new antibiotics are not keeping…
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Sound waves isolate rare cancer cells from blood cells
A team of engineers from MIT, Penn State University, and Carnegie Mellon University is developing a novel way to isolate cancer cells: using sound waves to separate them from blood cells. Their…
Robot ‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness for helping stroke patients to walk.
MIT professor Neville Hogan and his colleagues in the Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation have measured the stiffness of the ankle in various directions using a robot called the “Anklebot.”…