Professional musician Samantha Farrell, assistant to MIT.nano director Vladimir Bulovic, talks about how music is keeping her focused, productive, and sane, and how artists are more important than ever in difficult times like these.

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New CRISPR-based research tool delivers results in an hour; researchers share protocol and kits to advance research and move toward clinical validation.

Associate Professor Joseph Checkelsky wins $1.7 million Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative grant to pursue search for new crystalline materials.

MIT.nano, in collaboration with NCSOFT, is seeking research proposals from MIT Principal Investigators for projects that will explore software and hardware technology innovations for teleconferencing, communications, immersive experiences, data visualizations, gaming, digital human representations, and augmented or virtual reality. Proposed research should focus on technical development via experimental, theoretical, and/or computational discovery.

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Diagnostic platform CARMEN combines microfluidics with CRISPR-based detection technology SHERLOCK, and could one day be used for public health efforts.