Category: Biomedical Engineering
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Deep learning AI discovers surprising new antibiotics
Deep-learning AI will help keep us ahead of drug resistant pathogens. By Sriram Chandrasekaran
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How an AI solution can design new tuberculosis drug regimens
A new method could replace trial and error drug development.
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Implantable cancer traps could provide earlier diagnosis and help monitor treatment
Synthetic scaffolding could detect multiple types of cancers before they start to spread.
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Regents approve first floor renovations in Biomedical Engineering building
New space will support experiential learning and collaboration opportunities for students.
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Global health pioneer honored with recent alumni award
The award, among the highest accolades given by the Michigan Engineering Alumni Board, honors an alumnus/a who has contributed substantially to their field and has either graduated from the college within the last ten years or is no more than 35 years old.
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Patient cancer cells reliably grow on new 3D scaffold, showing promise for precision medicine
While previous structures guessed at the environment that cells would want, the new design lets the cells build to their own specifications.
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Shoe-box size breath-analyzer spots deadly lung disease faster, more accurately than doctors
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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Injectable ‘bone spackling’: A cell therapy approach to heal complex fractures
A Q&A with biomedical engineering professor Jan Stegemann, whose work in mice shows the promise of ‘microtissues.’
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An EpiPen for spinal cord injuries
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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Crackling and wheezing are more than just a sign of sickness
Re-thinking what stethoscopes tell us.
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A step toward recovering reproduction in girls who survive childhood cancer
New approach can boost ovarian follicle survival in mice by up to 75 percent.
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Speedy “slingshot” cell movement observed for the first time
New findings suggest it might one day be possible to direct healthy cells to advance tissue repair therapies.