Category: Health
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IV fluid bag shortage addressed in less than 24 hours
A team from engineering and medicine built a projection model to help healthcare systems adjust to product shortages.
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Faster, more sensitive lung cancer detection from a blood draw
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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Born to warm: Grace Hsia Haberl and Warmilu
Travel to Kenya with Grace Hsia Haberl (BSE MSE ‘12, MsE ‘13), co-founder and CEO of Warmilu, as she shares her University of Michigan-born non-electric infant warming blankets with hospitals, mothers and officials across the country. Called Incu-Blankets, the devices have warmed tens of thousands of babies in 23 countries.
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Tick-borne red meat allergy prevented in mice through new nanoparticle treatment
New approach could offer those with food allergies another option besides avoidance.
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An invisible mask? Wearable air curtain, treated to kill viruses, blocks 99.8% of aerosols
Headworn tech from U-M startup could protect agricultural and industrial workers from airborne pathogens.
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Spatial atlas of the human ovary with cell-level resolution will bolster reproductive research
Most human oocytes never get a chance to mature into eggs—a new study sheds light on why.
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Human stem cells coaxed to mimic the very early central nervous system
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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Widely used AI tool for early sepsis detection may be cribbing doctors’ suspicions
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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U-M team receives NIH grant for collaborative research to speed ARDS diagnosis
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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Is lung cancer treatment working? This chip can tell from a blood draw
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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Squishy, metal-free magnets to power robots and guide medical implants
Strong enough to move soft robots and medical capsules, weak enough to not ruin MRI images.
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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.