A new way to measure muscle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Shortly after taking a faculty position at MIT, Joel Dawson '96, SM '97 got together with his former music teacher, Elena Ruehr, for coffee. Ruehr, an MIT lecturer in music and theater arts, mentioned that her husband, a neurologist at Beth Israel, was looking for an engineer to help him with a device to measure muscle loss in patients with Lou Gehrig's Disease and other muscular ailments.

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