Health and Bio-compatibility

A co-director of U-M’s AI & Digital Health Innovation discusses the custom-built digital environment that will power tomorrow’s health AI research.

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U-M researchers are tackling the same trust issues as the AV industry.

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Marcus Foundation’s $30 million gift supports a collaboration between Stanford and U-M to help stroke victims regain the ability to read, write and speak.

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Foundation looks to support histotripsy research at the place it was invented.

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The implant attracts diseased immune cells, enabling researchers to study and target them with a nanoparticle-based treatment.

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General practitioners with AI help could make diagnoses, run and interpret tests, and perform procedures like specialists.

Brain-computer interface can enable people with paralysis to socialize with others, participate in remote work and enjoy recreational activities.

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U-M co-inventor of the cancer treatment has been named a National Academy of inventors fellow.

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Advanced microscopy techniques and AI models will help design complex nanoparticles for specific biological targets with less trial and error.

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Since coming to the University in 1984, Prof. Bhattacharya has pioneered several important technological advances.

Prof. Peterson’s findings could be used in wireless sensing and actuation systems, including those that deal with monitoring of the environment and medical conditions.

The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society is a remote sensing organization with more than 3700 members around the globe.

‘There’s an intellectual milieu and an enthusiasm that’s palpable.’

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New batteryless and wireless sensor tested in pigs.

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Some sick Black patients are likely labeled as “healthy” in AI datasets due to inequitable medical testing.

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Capturing nanoscale ‘packages’ that cancer cells send out, twisting gold nanoparticles use light to distinguish healthy patients from lung cancer patients.

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New approach could offer those with food allergies another option besides avoidance.

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Headworn tech from U-M startup could protect agricultural and industrial workers from airborne pathogens.

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Most human oocytes never get a chance to mature into eggs—a new study sheds light on why.

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Mixing unconventional ingredients in just the right order can make complex materials with fewer impurities. The robotic lab that tested the idea could be widely adopted.

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Most human oocytes never get a chance to mature into eggs—a new study sheds light on why.

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Particles that gum up the keys that the virus uses to enter cells could one day be an effective COVID treatment whenever vaccines and other treatments fall short.

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The first organized stem cell culture model that resembles all three sections of the embryonic brain and spinal cord could shed light on developmental brain diseases.

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When using only data collected before patients with sepsis received treatments or medical tests, the model’s accuracy was no better than a coin toss.

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Dawn Tilbury is recognized for advances in manufacturing network control and human-robot interaction, as well as engineering leadership.

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University of Michigan researchers examine if molecular compounds in exhaled breath could lead to improved diagnosis and tracking of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

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By trapping and concentrating tiny numbers of cancer cells from blood samples, the device can identify whether a treatment is working at the four-week mark.

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Strong enough to move soft robots and medical capsules, weak enough to not ruin MRI images.

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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.

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

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A “new physiological flow” modeled in the body could aid in treatment of lung infections and pulmonary edema.

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And that tracks with the way our motor circuits work—we’re not that complicated.

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Technique pioneered at the University of Michigan could improve outcomes for cancer and neurological conditions.

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

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

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When a person’s cognitive function is highly variable, they’re likely to be more infectious and have more symptoms after exposure to a respiratory virus.

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A new industry partnership seeks to enable on-demand local manufacturing of next-generation N95s with innovative designs and materials.

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The unique program awards $875k in flexible funding.

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The ability to accurately detect where X-rays land and in what dose could reduce the collateral damage from radiation therapy.

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Being able to decide not only whether a micron-scale particle twists but also how much could open new avenues for machine vision and more.

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

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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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As the auto industry expands beyond transportation, university collaborations are more important than ever.

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Using a simple and convenient touchscreen interface, the algorithm learns the assistance preferences of the wearer.

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This Q&A with award co-recipient Alfred Hero offers a glimpse into the emerging field of single photon imaging.

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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Wintenberg is developing computer algorithms and tools to improve the security of cyber and cyber-physical systems.

Elaheh Ahmadi, David Blaauw, Michael Flynn, Hun-Seok Kim, Hessam Mahdavifar, and Zhengya Zhang bring their expertise and creativity to this nationwide undertaking in the area of semiconductors and information & communication technologies.

The SCISCCO system could better monitor brain and organ metabolism, helping to diagnose concussions, monitor cerebral metabolism in traumatic brain injury patients, and gauge the response of organs to treatments in an operating or emergency room scenario.

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Euisik Yoon’s team, led by Sungjin Oh, developed a low-power neural recording front-end circuit to interface with state-of-the-art neural probes.

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Mechanical engineers at the University of Michigan are tackling mysteries of bone density loss in space and on Earth.

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Three Michigan Engineering faculty help to elevate communities and systems through a people-first approach to teaching.

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Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and healthcare.

Prof. Wiens will continue to use machine learning techniques to study the disease.

The CSE faculty include Prof. David Fouhey, Prof. Danai Koutra, Prof. Rada Mihalcea, and Research Scientist Veronica Perez-Rosas.

“I don’t think any of us expected a global pandemic at the end of our senior year, let alone being able to work on an application that helps address it.”

Healthcare security company Virta Laboratories, Inc. has received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

What happened to people inside the U.S. Embassy in Havana?

The vulnerability allows an attacker to manipulate a new intelligent traffic control algorithm and cause severe traffic jams.

A large quantum computer could retroactively decrypt almost all internet communication ever recorded.

When it comes to their smartphones, immigrants struggle to apply instinctive caution, according to a study by a team of University of Michigan researchers.

“The work is an important step towards understanding how to make tradeoffs between usability and security.”

A new special topics course on election cybersecurity gives students an examination of the past, present, and future of US elections.

A team of researchers unearthed new data on geographic denial of access to web content in a new paper.

McDonald works to develop better privacy and security tools for marginalized communities

In congressional testimony, professor urges $370M in federal funding to replace outdated machines.

The effort seeks to protect the integrity of every vote.

The meeting began the commission’s review and assessment of election security in Michigan.

The research suggests that common blacklist-based prevention systems are ineffective.

The research generated a chatbot to help users sift through important details in privacy policies.

The researchers demonstrated that an adversary could remotely manipulate the temperature sensor measurements without tampering with the targeted system or triggering automatic temperature alarms.

All three of these attacks put users’ privacy at risk, exploiting new routes to sensitive data.

Technology pioneered by Michigan researchers can circumvent many effective website blocking tools

The new system is designed to save security researchers time and effort spent reverse-engineering the message format of every vehicle they study.

The newly discovered microphone vulnerability allows attackers to remotely inject inaudible and invisible commands into voice assistants using light.

The proposal provides a chip-level safeguard against sensitive data being transmitted after it’s accessed.

The team says their framework can scalably and semi-automatically monitor the use of filtering technologies for censorship at global scale.

Prof. Austin is a creative, outside-the-box thinker who has produced a body of work that has had extraordinary impact in the area of computer architecture.

The projects impact voting systems, physical sensors, integrated circuit fabrication, and multiple microarchitectural side-channel vulnerabilities.

The two organizations will connect their membership and partner networks to work on advancing security for life-saving devices.

Prof. Roya Ensafi and PhD candidate Reethika Ramesh led organizing efforts for USENIX’s Tenth Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet.

Censored Planet is releasing technical details for other researchers and for activists.

The winning paper broke open a new area of investigation in hardware-based data leaks.

Today, over 225 million websites are protected by free certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt.

Microphones that “hear” light; microprocessors that “tell” us secrets; self-driving cars that “see” fake objects; sensors that “feel” the wrong temperature. Our devices are under attack in new, increasingly sophisticated ways. Security researchers at CSE are exploring the limits of hardware and finding new, sobering vulnerabilities in our computers and homes.

A medical security expert outlines the risks and how hospitals can protect themselves.

TrustForge, based on U-M research spearheaded by Austin and Bertacco, provides users with the ability to protect data using a process called sequestered encryption

Prof. Mao and her students have played an important role in understanding the efficiency, security, and performance of a number of mobile systems.

Subarno Banerjee uses program analysis to improve software systems’ safety and security.

Recent breakthrough developments in technologies for real-time genome sequencing, analysis, and diagnosis are poised to deliver a new standard of personalized care.

Her work uses machine learning to measure mood, emotion, and other aspects of human behavior for purposes of providing early or real-time interventions for people in managing their health.

Five multidisciplinary research teams are working on projects to assist with the coronavirus outbreak and to help find solutions to pressing problems.

Mower Provost talks about getting awards, doing industry research, understanding human behavior – and Star Wars.

Tkaczyk hopes that his technique will be used to further the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Congratulations!

Long’s work describes a new algorithm for performing model-based methods in a way that requires less computation yet provides improved image quality.

The goal of the research is to develop an alternative method to x-ray imaging that is safer and uses nothing stronger than radio frequency waves.

The researchers have optimized an optical resonator to take an infrared signal from relatively cheap telecommunication-compatible lasers and boost it to an ultraviolet beam.

“We’re excited to be adding Veo to the measures we already have in place to ensure that we get diagnostic images using the lowest amount of radiation possible.”

The method they developed compares favorably with the best of current techniques, while being faster and easier.

Their technique utilizes backscatter analysis to construct “perfectly transmitting” wavefronts.

Nataraj’s research aims to generate higher-quality and faster MRI images, resulting in improved diagnostics of neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases.

Nataraj is using big data techniques to transform the field of medical imaging

The research group is using statistical signal processing to create crisper images with only 20% of the data required by a traditional MRI scan.

Mai has served as Community Service Co-chair of the Graduate Society of Women Engineers since arriving at Michigan in 2011.

Hao’s research is focused on improving the quality of images from magnetic resonance imaging pulse design.

U-M researchers demonstrated a unique terahertz detector and imaging system that could bridge the terahertz gap.

This advance could be important for fighting lung cancers, as symptoms often appear too late for effective treatment.

One of the most promising avenues for achieving new target levels of high peak intensity and high average power in an ultrafast laser system is to turn to fiber lasers.

Ultra-low dose CT scans that provide superior image quality could not only benefit patients, but they could open up entirely new clinical applications.

Prof. Fessler has revolutionized medical imaging with groundbreaking mathematical models and algorithms that improve both safety and quality.

Amr is investigating both the unique advantages and the performance limitations of radar systems operating at 240 GHz in typical outdoor environments.

The course covers the theory and application of digital image processing, with applications in biomedical images, time-varying imagery, robotics, and optics.

Prof. Kanicki expects breakthroughs in both the flat-panel display and imager industries using his-ITZO TFT technology in the near future.

Students in EECS 556: Image Processing, explore methods to improve image processing in applications such as biomedical imaging and video and image compression

Terahertz and sub-terahertz imaging can provide superior results in some biomedical imaging, spectroscopy, and water saturation detection.

KLA sponsored prizes for three outstanding projects focused on improving image processing for neurosurgery and satellite applications and MRI reconstruction techniques.

While 3D films are currently made using multiple cameras to reconstruct each frame, this new type of camera could record in 3D on its own.

Each day the students set up a mobile clinic with a doctor from a partner organization, reaching as many 600 community members while in Cusco.

The device resembles a swaddling hammock and features a heating pad charged by thermoelectrics, allowing users to light candles beneath the cells to generate power.

A pilot program will bring together researchers from different universities to collaborate on advancing research that may lead to a better understanding of the human brain.

With a radio specifically designed to communicate through tissue, researchers from the Electrical and Computer Engineering are adding another level to a computer platform small enough to fit inside a medical grade syringe.

ICAN bring engineers and neuroscientists together to review the recent advancement in neurotechnology and neuroscience, define the need for next-generation tools, and enhance the translation of technology to the scientific community.

IPAN sent eight undergraduates to Germany for a month of lab work, learning about the intricacies of the brain.

A new tool for making sense of the cells believed to cause cancer relapses and metastases.

Some believed early Michigan brain researchers were engaging in “science fiction” – until development of an advanced tool for forging breakthroughs proved them wrong.

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Prof. Todd Coleman’s group is tackling the challenging problem of getting high-fidelity monitoring to work affordably at home.

Award for outstanding doctoral candidates near the end of their study.

SPARC awarded $1M to a U-M project developing better nerve mapping.

An expert health sciences entrepreneur, Rich is ready to repeat success with revolutionary technology.

With a bit of metal, nanoparticles shine in colors based on size.

EECS-ECE PhD student Navid Barani received the IEEE APS Doctoral Research Award for his work modeling how bacteria use electromagnetic waves to communicate, which could lead to medical breakthroughs.

Capturing cancer cells from blood samples offers a non-invasive way to observe whether the cancer is disappearing or whether it is becoming resistant to the treatment.

Balzano will work with Portuguese researcher Mário Figueiredo to develop new machine learning methods impacting medical diagnosis and treatment.

Cancer biologists and engineers collaborated on a device that could help predict the likelihood of breast cancer metastasis.

Prof. Euisik Yoon and his team developed a new machine learning tool that enables large-scale testing of cancer drug effectiveness with microfluidics.

Prof. Alfred Hero speaks to ECE about his work using data to predict the transmission of infectious disease among people who are pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic and how it relates to COVID-19.

Collaborative website launched while U-M researchers continue advanced testing.

It will now be possible to study brain activity when timing is important, such as the consolidation of memory.

To improve the prediction and identification of stem-like cancer cells, Prof. Euisik Yoon’s group developed a method that is 3.5 times faster than the standard approach.

A new application for an ongoing NSF project could bolster contract tracing efforts.

Prof. Kamal Sarabandi and ECE PhD student Navid Barani won a best paper award for their research on how biological cells may use electromagnetic signal transmission to communicate.

ECE postdoc Melissa Haskell works on improving functional magnetic resonance imaging so we can better measure and understand brain activity.

Prof. Euisik Yoon and his team are recognized for their work designing low-noise, multisite/multicolor optoelectrodes that will help neurologists learn more about neural connectivity in the brain.

The researchers’ imaging technique is fast, accurate, and reproducible

The interdisciplinary team was able to dramatically speed up the process while potentially doubling the quality of the image

New technology provides a contactless method to add respiratory rate and heart rate to temperature readings .

Research led by Prof. Zetian Mi has been honored with the 2020 Editor-in-Chief Choice Award from “Photonics Research.”

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Prof. Somin Lee and her research group developed a way to reduce trial and error in gene editing by getting a look at the process in real time

Lasers of tomorrow might neutralize nuclear waste, clean up space junk and advance proton therapy to treat cancer, says Gerard Mourou.

Gérard Mourou, Professor Emeritus of EECS, returned to campus to discuss winning the Nobel Prize and his work in high-intensity optics.

The carbon nanotube carpet is about half the thickness of a sheet of paper and absorbs 99.9 percent of the light that hits it.

McCullagh is working to develop energy harvesting devices and circuits to power wireless sensor nodes which can monitor bridge health.

The technology could potentially identify a hidden weapon from a distance in less than a second.

By shining the laser on a target and analyzing the reflected light, researchers can tell the chemical composition of the target.

The research group developed special fabrication processes that allows them to stack and bond seven different devices in layers.

The researchers believe that metasurfaces could one day be used to completely control the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light.

Since coming to the University in 1984, Bhattacharya has pioneered several important technological advances.

Peterson’s findings could be used in wireless sensing and actuation systems, including those that deal with monitoring of the environment and medical conditions.

The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society is a remote sensing organization with more than 3700 members around the globe.

She computationally measures, represents, and analyzes human behavior data to illuminate fundamental human behavior and emotion perception, and develop natural human-machine interfaces.

Her dissertation focused on “opacity,” which captures whether a given secret of the system can be inferred by intruders who observe the behavior of the system.

Thomas and his group are working to improve upon artificial neural network design through a process called sparse coding.

One of the paper describes and demonstrates a malicious hardware backdoor. The other demonstrated security failings in a commercial smart home platform.

Yektakhah’s system improves on the speed, portability, and accuracy of many commercial models

With $7.5M MURI grant, Professor Anthony Grbic is developing metamaterials for a new generation of integrated electromagnetic and photonic systems.

Zhang is working to improve data security and address important ethical issues related to AI and discriminatory data sets.

The workshop, co-organized by a team including two EECS faculty, focused on ensuring the safety of Level 3 autonomous vehicles, where humans must be ready to take over control.

This new book by Mingyan Liu offers an engineering and strategic approach to improving cybersecurity through cyber insurance

Prof. Al Hero was interviewed and gave a presentation about his research using machine learning to improve our understanding of the human gut

Yoon’s research has contributed to a better understanding of the brain, as well as improved detection and treatment of cancer.

Transparent optical sensor arrays combine with a specialized neural network in new University of Michigan prototype

Willingale’s research in plasma physics advances many research areas from spectacular astrophysical phenomena to cancer treatment to fusion power.

In this video, CSE PhD Student Matt Bernhard weighs in on the matter Facebook data harvesting, such as that done by Cambridge Analytica.

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Researchers carried out the first study on voter behavior with electronic assistive devices, found 93% missed incorrect ballots.

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The rays used by airport scanners might have a future in medical imaging.

A self-erasing chip for security and anti-counterfeit tech.

Could censorship end the internet as we know it? Not if Roya Ensafi can help it.

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The frame in which a human marks out the boundaries of an object makes a huge difference in how well AI software can identify that object through the rest of the video.

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Powered by a broadband infrared laser, the device can zero in on the ‘spectral fingerprint region’.

The algorithm can pick out weak signals from nuclear weapons materials, hidden in ordinary radiation sources like fertilizer.

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Room-temperature plasma beams could essentially dissolve away bacteria and viruses.

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Could human-robot collaboration revitalize an outmoded business model and attract new workers?

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A major defense project pivots to explore how to encourage COVID-safe behavior effectively.

Predictive model could help care providers stay safe, anticipate patient needs.

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As COVID-19 looks more like a disease of the immune system, a Michigan engineer is working with doctors to look at how immune responses differ between mild and severe cases.

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The web tools will help state officials identify potential hotspots as they reopen Michigan to business.

When white blood cells don’t know when to stop, an injection of rod-shaped particles may draw them away from a site of excessive inflammation.

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Public policy and engineering team up to improve food access.

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“The technology can give users the confidence they deserve when reusing respirators or other PPE.”

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Medical giant Johnson & Johnson and federal HHS select U-M design with “minimal impact on daily life.”

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Research in mice shows efficacy for multiple sclerosis.

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Measuring RNA from SARS-COV-2 allows for more accurate testing than similar methods.

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First-of-its-kind study examined multiple pathogens, as well as filtration and fit.

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How engineers are applying their expertise for future planning.

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The method could one day be used to develop nanobodies against other viruses and disease targets as well.

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“Wastewater-based epidemiology has shown to be a valuable tool to inform public health officials of case levels and infection trends in a community.”

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Material and size designed to give electrodes a chance to operate in the body for years.

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A conventional approach to HIV vaccination does not induce immune responses in everyone equally, and a new computer model shows why.

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In preparation for climate adaptation in water-stressed areas, researchers will assess how well existing treatment systems prepare water for reuse.

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The model can be used as a tool to inform decision-makers and individuals on relative risks and advantages associated with a layered defense.

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The multidisciplinary research team ​​will synergize efforts across the University.

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Twisted semiconductor nanostructures convert red light into the twisted blue light in tiny volumes, which may help develop chiral drugs.

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Computer modeling links a person’s genes to whether producing more antibodies will help them fight off the disease.

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Terahertz light creates twisting vibrations in biomolecules such as proteins, confirming whether their compositions and structures are safe and effective.

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Studies in mice show how the two of the body’s natural injury responders conflict following traumatic muscle injuries.

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Michigan Engineering researchers will help reveal pathways for virus detection and transmission

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Technique pioneered at the University of Michigan could improve outcomes for cancer and neurological conditions.

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Nano-engineered drugs that stop harmful bacteria and viruses could be on the horizon.

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A protein that crosses the blood-brain barrier carries a drug that kills tumor cells and another that activates the immune system.

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Work for the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy will develop a policy roadmap to safe, low cost water services.

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Polyurethane locks in the antimicrobial power of tea tree and cinnamon oils. The new technology could start making public spaces safer within a year.

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Cancer cells delete DNA when they go to the dark side, so a team of doctors and engineers targeted the “backup plans” running critical cell functions.

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For now, Grizzle and his graduate students are only attempting the easiest routes, between the grassy two- to three-foot moguls, over smaller undulations that he calls “merely very difficult.”

Cassie is the first offering from new startup Agility Robotics, and is loosely modeled on the cassowary, a flightless bird similar to an ostrich.

Data gleaned from cameras and sensors increases predictive accuracy.

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U-M researchers examined how a person’s perception of safety in an autonomous vehicle was influenced by its “personality” traits.

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Charting a path to powered exoskeletons: A Q&A with Leia Stirling

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U-M startup says robotic food deliveries have quadrupled.

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The facility will accelerate the future of advanced and more equitable robotics and mobility.

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An open-source perception and movement system, to be developed with NSF funding, could enable robots that partner with humans in fires and disaster areas.

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Tested without needing hospitals to share data, the method for developing the model could speed further improvements in medical prediction tools.

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Sheth is the co-founder of Inspiritus Health and has developed a simple to use, non-invasive medical device that keeps patients’ muscles engaged when they are on a ventilator to prevent muscle atrophy.

The new computer model accurately predicts the behavior of millions of microbial communities from hundreds of experiments, an advance toward precision medicine.

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Highlights include The New York Times and National Geographic.

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Highlights include CNN and Popular Science.

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The hectoSTAR probe, with 128 stimulating micro-LEDs and 256 recording electrodes integrated in the same neural probe, was designed for some stellar brain mapping projects

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The cohort of 36 new tenured and tenure-track faculty includes 11 faculty hired at the rank of professor or associate professor.

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