Category: Research
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New reactor could save millions when making ingredients for plastics and rubber from natural gas
With oil production dropping, a process using natural gas is needed to avert a shortage of a workhorse chemical used for automotive parts, cleaning products and more.
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Targeting multiple COVID variants through the twist in the spike protein
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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Bridge in a box: Unlocking origami’s power to produce load-bearing structures
Foldable origami with thick panels opens a world of possibilities.
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Explaining a supernova’s ‘string of pearls’
It looks like the same mechanism that breaks up airplane contrails might be at play in forming the clumps of hydrogen gas that ring the remnant of supernova 1987A.
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Auto industry deadlines loom for impaired-driver detection tech, U-M offers a low-cost solution
Current technologies already in use could help prevent crashes and deaths linked to impaired driving.
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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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Improving traffic signal timing with a handful of connected vehicles
Communities could reduce costs and cut vehicle emissions—all in the name of shortening your trip.
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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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Leader in robotics at U-M and beyond elected to National Academy of Engineering
Dawn Tilbury is recognized for advances in manufacturing network control and human-robot interaction, as well as engineering leadership.
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Mariel Lavieri selected to join the New Voices program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
The U-M industrial and operations engineer is recognized for excellence in research related to human health as well as championing diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Urine-to-fertilizer effort part of NSF Regional Innovation Engine
U-M involved in Great Lakes consortium to support sustainable economic growth
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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).