Significant interest exists in creating insect-based Micro-Air-Vehicles (MAVs) that would combine advantageous features of insects—small size, effective energy storage, navigation…
Embryonic development is a complex dynamic process, whereby spatial organization of molecular signals instructs stem cells to adopt various differentiation…
The development of new techniques to separate and characterize cells with high throughput has been essential to many of the…
Autocrine signaling plays a key role in tumorigenesis and in the maintenance of various physiologic states. Our research involves the…
This research involves the development of architectures for screening complex phenotypes in biological cells. We augment microscopy with the ability…
Cell fusion has been used for many purposes, including generating hybridomas and reprogramming somatic cells. The fusion step is the…
Stem cell phenotype and function are influenced by microenvironmental cues comprised of the cell-cell, cell-extracellular matrix (ECM), cell-media interactions, and…
Microtechnology for basic and applied cell biology; Microsystems for stem cell biology; Electrostatics at the microscale, especially dielectrophoresis.
The MEMS@MIT Center serves to unite the wide-ranging campus activities in micro/nano systems and MEMS with forward-looking industrial organizations. Currently,…