Many immune responses are mediated by cell-cell interactions. In particular, cytotoxic T cells form conjugates with pathogenic and cancer cells…
The use of microsystems to manipulate and study cells in microenvironments is continually increasing. However, along with such increase in…
Stem cell phenotype and function are influenced by microenvironmental cues that include cell-cell, cell-extracellular matrix (ECM), and cell-media interactions, as…
Autocrine signaling is a mode of chemical signaling that occurs when cells can capture self-secreted diffusive factors. Apart from its…
The development of new techniques to separate and characterize cells with high throughput has been essential to many of the…
Microfabricated/microfluidic approaches to cell sorting, include purely dielectrophoretic (DEP) trap arrays [1] , passive hydrodynamic trap arrays with active DEP-based…
Significant interest exists in creating insect-based Micro-Air-Vehicles (MAVs) [1] [2] [3] that would combine advantageous features of insects—small size, effective…
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,…