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  1. “Learning database” speeds queries from hours to seconds

    Verdict can make databases deliver answers more than 200 times faster while maintaining 99 percent accuracy.

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  2. New class of antibiotics: nanobiotics

    U-M researchers Nicholas Kotov and J. Scott VanEpps are collaborating to create a new class of antibiotics known as nanobiotics.

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  3. BigANT tackles the wave field

    Prof. Shai Revzen’s lab in ECE has developed an inexpensive technique to rapidly fabricate a variety of useful robots.

  4. Accelerating the mobile web

    New Vroom software could double its speed.

  5. Autonomous robot construction is here

    U-M researchers have developed modeling techniques that will help on-site construction robots with autonomous decision making.

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  6. Precision health pioneer named to MIT Technology Review innovator list

    The national magazine recognized Jenna Wiens as one of 2017’s 35 Innovators Under 35.

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  7. Affordable lead sensor for home, city water lines

    EXPERTS: A new electronic lead sensor, potentially costing around $20, could keep an eye on home and city water quality, alerting residents and officials to the presence of lead within nine days. The University of Michigan researchers are seeking partners to bring the technology to market. The Flint water crisis showed the nation that old […]

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  8. Stem cells mimic key parts of human embryonic development

    The method advanced by U-M cell biologists and engineers could aid the understanding of infertility and more.

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  9. IGARSS Interactive Symposium Paper Award for modeling the world’s forests

    The paper outlines a better way to quantify forest structure, which has been successful in two tree species.

  10. $7.75M for mapping circuits in the brain

    A new NSF Tech Hub will put tools to rapidly advance our understanding of the brain into the hands of neuroscientists.

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