Device for Zika Virus Detection

An inexpensive device that can diagnose Zika in just a few hours has been developed. According to the James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering and…

The Magic of Chemical Sensing on a Chip

A principal research scientist at MIT’s Microphotonics Center, Anuradha Agarwal and her colleagues have developed miniaturized mid-infrared and far-infrared sensing systems that can be tuned to detect specific materials and their concentrations. Agarwal’s miniaturized infrared detection technology research offers the…