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With further development, the programmable system could be used in a range of applications including gene and cancer therapies.

Three MIT-led teams are among 16 nationwide to receive funding awards to address sustainable materials for global challenges through the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program. One of the funded projects, “Building a Sustainable, Innovative Ecosystem for Microchip Manufacturing,” will be led by Anuradha Murthy Agarwal, a principal research scientist at the MIT Materials Research Laboratory and Leader of the Lab for Education and Application Prototypes (LEAP) located on MIT.nano's fifth floor.

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MIT engineers discover new carbonation pathways for creating more environmentally friendly concrete.

Fake seeds can cost farmers more than two-thirds of expected crop yields and threaten food security. Trackable silk labels could help.

In MIT visit, CEO Pat Gelsinger sounds a bullish note on the future of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing.

Drawing inspiration from butterfly wings, reflective fibers woven into clothing could reshape textile sorting and recycling.

Project will develop new materials characterization tools and technologies to assign unique identifiers to individual pearls.

Work with skyrmions could have applications in future computers and more.