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Better prosthetics: $3M to develop more natural robotic leg control
  1. Better prosthetics: $3M to develop more natural robotic leg control

    An effort to create a control model that moves seamlessly between different activities like standing, walking and climbing stairs is renewed by the National Institutes of Health.

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  2. Clinicians could be fooled by biased AI, despite explanations

    Regulators pinned their hopes on clinicians being able to spot flaws in explanations of an AI model’s logic, but a study suggests this isn’t a safe approach.

  3. Building Flint’s trust in its drinking water

    Even with lead service line replacement, the city’s water has issues that require public education.

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  4. Bioengineer and M.D. receives Packard Fellowship to study cellular memory

    The unique program awards $875k in flexible funding.

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  5. Tumor-destroying soundwaves receive FDA approval for liver treatment in humans

    Technique developed at the University of Michigan provides a non-invasive alternative to surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer.

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  6. AI tool helps optimize antibody medicines

    Machine learning points out why antibodies fail to stay on target, binding to molecules that aren’t markers of disease—and suggests better designs.

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  7. Nanobiotics: AI for discovering where and how nanoparticles bind with proteins

    A new tool in the fight against superbugs goes beyond protein folding simulations like AlphaFold, potentially revealing antibiotic candidates.

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  8. AI could run a million microbial experiments per year

    Automation uncovers combinations of amino acids that feed two bacterial species and could tell us much more about the 90% of bacteria that humans have hardly studied.

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  9. Wastewater dashboard adds monkeypox, flu and more for five southeast Michigan communities

    The results of monitoring for diseases beyond COVID-19 are now publicly available for Ann Arbor, Flint, Jackson, Tecumseh and Ypsilanti.

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  10. Study finds exhaled breath could enhance detection, diagnosis of COVID-19 and variants

    Research suggests volatile organic compounds in breath could mark distinction between COVID-19, variants and non-COVID illnesses.

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