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Review from Professor Markus Buehler featured on the cover of Nature Reviews: Materials

April 16, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

A review from Professor Markus Buehler, former postdoc Shengjie Ling and David Kaplan of Tufts University was featured on the cover of the April edition of Nature Reviews: Materials. The paper, entitled “Nanofibrils in nature and […]

Research from Professor Markus Buehler and Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics shows spider silk can help understand how bones regenerate

December 22, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

New research from Professor Markus Buehler and Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM) shows spider silk can help understand how bones regenerate. The MIT researchers modeled how a cell membrane protein receptor, integrin, folds and […]

Professor Benedetto Marelli and Cambridge Crops win first place at Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize competition

May 3, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Cambridge Crops, a company inspired by research from Paul M. Cook Career Development Assistant Professor Benedetto Marelli, won first place at the second annual Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize competition for their edible, tasteless coating […]

Silk-based filtration material breaks barriers

August 31, 2016 | Research | ceemit

[fusion_text]When the Chinese first discovered silk, its superior quality and properties were thought so special, it was reserved exclusively for clothing the emperor, his relatives, and dignitaries. And for more than two millennia, the mechanisms of […]