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• Vibrating Insoles for Better Balance
  Balance in humans relies on complex feedback from the senses that govern the body’s mechanical stability. Wyss Institute and Boston University researchers have discovered that random vibrations, too gentle to be felt, can improve the sensory feedback system and may restore stability through a mechanism known as “stochastic resonance”. By incorporating vibrating elements in insoles...

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• Press Release Exposing how pancreatic cancer does its dirty work
  August 28, 2019
• Translation News Sherlock Biosciences Licenses Wyss Technology to Create Affordable Molecular Diagnostics
  March 21, 2019
• Press Release Soft multi-functional robots get really small
  August 6, 2018

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• Apr 1, 2019, 4:00pm Lecture
  
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  Engineering 3D Culture Models of Physiology and Disease: How Simple is Complex Enough
  Wyss Institute Associate Faculty Member Christopher Chen will be the speaker at this Charles Delisi Distinguished Lecture Award Event, presented by the Boston University College of Engineering. Please RSVP to engadmsw@bu.edu by March 18. Reception will follow the lecture at 5pm. Free and open to public

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  MORPH: A new soft material microfabrication process
  What has the ability to move and show its colors, is made only of silicone rubber and manufactured at the millimeter scale? A soft robotic peacock spider. Researchers have combined three different manufacturing techniques to create a novel origami-inspired soft material microfabrication process that goes beyond what existing approaches can achieve at this small scale....

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  Soft Exosuit for Post-stroke Gait Re-training
  This video explains how exosuit technology, developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, applied to ankle movements helps patients post-stroke regain a more normal gait. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University