Eugene Bell Assistant Prof at MIT • tissue engineering the neuromuscular system to restore mobility and power robots • RamanLab.mit.edu
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The big reveal… so proud of Sonika Kohli and Angel Bu for winning a Koch Institute Image Award for their piece titled “Repairing Lost Connections” featuring our lab’s work on treating nerve injuries. Check it out for yourself by visiting the public galleries at the MIT Koch Institute!
Meet the Raman Lab at the MPS World Summit in DC! We have a great lineup of talks featuring our #NAMs modeling human muscles, peripheral nerves, and vasculature for applications in disease modeling, therapeutic discovery, and biohybrid robotics.
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Can we couple #AI & experimental science to accelerate the pace of discovery while preserving safety, reliability, and beneficial impact on human health? Check out our conversation w/ Google DeepMind Co-Scientist, featuring me pipetting at 39.5 weeks pregnant (!!!):
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Interfacing #bioelectronics w/ soft tissues that dynamically move, grow, & change shape presents a complex mechanical challenge. Our new review highlights materials & structural design strategies for #biohybrid devices coupling electronics to engineered tissues:
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Today was the first of its kind Symposium dedicated to #glycoRNAs and Cell Surface RNA biology. Tools and topics spanned cancer, immunology, and pathogenic infection - speaking to the growing excitement and impact of thinking about RNA at the interface between cells!
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Honored to be featured in this special "early career innovators" issue of Bioengineering and Translational Medicine! Check out the collection curated by Elizabeth Nance here, highlighting our paper on high-throughput muscle exercise assays:
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New preprint! Biohybrid #robots powered by skeletal muscle have historically relied on 3D tissue. Here we show that 2D skeletal muscle thin films can be 20X more efficient than their 3D counterparts - producing significantly larger forces from smaller tissue volumes:
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Out today in Cell Biomaterials: Limb-On-A-Chip! We present a simple + scalable 1-step method for fabricating all-hydrogel chips, yielding neuromuscular co-cultures compatible with multiscale functional readouts:
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Excited to see our MagMix platform on the cover of Device! MagMix is a modular, compact, material-agnostic in situ mixing platform for 3D bioprinters that actively + safely homogenizes cell-laden bioinks with no printer hardware/software mods:
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Happy to share a new review: Functional Inclusion of RNA Biology in the Tethered Extracellular Matrix
We discuss the emerging interface of RNA biology and the ECM. The way biology solved protein-HS interactions is very similar to RNA-protein!
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