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Studying ethical questions as the brain’s black box Is unlocked

Excerpt from The New York Times

Tissue engineering at MIT: where it’s going

Modeling human disease, testing potential new drugs are hot research areas at MIT

A powerful microscale actuator for microrobotics and drug delivery

Can deliver a force 1000 times greater than human muscle of the same weight

IBM reveals five innovations that will change our lives within five years

The era of cognitive systems: when computers will, in their own way, see, smell, touch, taste and hear

An information-processing approach to the origin of life

New perspective would allow for living systems instantiated in different chemical substrates — including potentially non-organic substrates

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