Category: News
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Prime ad space. In space. MIT students would put slogans on satellite to raise funds
By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff | November 3, 2006 Now on sale: Ads in space. In a novel bid to raise money to send a research satellite into space, a group of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is offering companies and individuals a chance to put their advertisements into orbit around the Earth.…
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New center to focus on synthetic biology
August 3, 2006 Five MIT researchers are among the pioneers behind a new research center in synthetic biology, a precocious field whose primary long-term goal is to make it easier to design and build useful organisms. Current work includes refining pieces of DNA into standard biological parts that researchers could then mix and match to…
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Robotic bears can monitor sick kids – MIT’s device packed with sensors
By Christopher Rowland, Globe Staff | July 31, 2006 SIGGRAPH 2006: From idea to image It’s an academic conference. It’s a digital art exhibit. It’s drawing 25,000 people to Boston this week to see how emerging technologies are being used to educate, entertain, and study everything from the sea floor to the human body. In…