An MIT spinoff called MicroCHIPS has announced plans to market an implantable contraceptive chip that can be turned on and off remotely, and lasts for as long as sixteen years.
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MIT Bioengineer Works to Unravel Endometriosis
For four years, MIT bioengineer Linda Griffith has been slowly unraveling the biology of endometriosis, a complicated and poorly understood disease that she has silently struggled with her entire life. The condition — in which tissue normally found in the uterus grows elsewhere in the body — is remarkably common, yet relatively little is known about what causes it or how to treat or prevent it.