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CAMBRIDGE, MA (PRWEB) May 09, 2023 -- Innovation was on the agenda recently at Draper when new research was presented by 17 Master’s and Ph.D. students whose

CAMBRIDGE, MA (PRWEB) March 07, 2023 -- Draper announced today the opening of a new office in Odon, Indiana, to help the company serve customers in the

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institue of Technology said they have pioneered a tunable technique to generate wood-like plant material in a lab, which could enable someone to “grow” a wooden product like a table without needing to cut down trees and process lumber.

MIT researchers can now control the physical and mechanical properties of lab-grown plant materials. This could enable an environmentally friendly process to produce wood-like structures with specific properties, like stiffness or density, tailored to certain applications.