The device could also be used to detect other diseases such as pneumonia, sepsis, asthma and others associated with lung or systemic blood inflammation.
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A Q&A with biomedical engineering professor Jan Stegemann, whose work in mice shows the promise of ‘microtissues.’
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U-M researchers have designed nanoparticles that intercept immune cells on their way to the spinal cord and redirect them away from the injury.
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Re-thinking what stethoscopes tell us.
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New device caught more than three times as many cancer cells as conventional blood draw samples.
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The logic of feeling: Teaching computers to identify emotions
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They never released the woman’s name. News articles and government reports that came out in early 2017, months after her death, referred to her as “a Northern Nevada woman,” “a female Washoe County resident,” or something similarly vague. Her killer, however, they didn’t miss that: Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Parse through those vowels and you’ll dig out the reason […]
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Model successfully applied to data from medical centers with different patient populations, electronic health record systems
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Born in an engineering class, now the ‘arterial everter’ has been licensed to Baxter.
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Device generates over 100 volts from saltwater.
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