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.
July 9, 2019
An injection of nanoparticles can prevent the body’s immune system from overreacting to trauma, potentially preventing some spinal cord injuries from resulting in paralysis. The approach was demonstrated in mice at the University of Michigan, with the nanoparticles enhancing healing by reprogramming the aggressive immune cells. Call it an EpiPen for trauma to the central […]
Read more »By Cannibalizing Nearby Stromal Stem Cells, Some Breast Cancer Cells Gain Invasion Advantage Cancer biologists and engineers collaborated on a device that could help predict the likelihood of breast cancer metastasis.
July 8, 2019
Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and U-M College of Engineering have found that breast cancer cells that swallow up nearby stem cells take on some of their properties, enhancing their ability to invade other tissues throughout the body and seed secondary tumors, a process known as metastasis. It started with an unexpected observation […]
Read more »Making connections: Designing a new neural interface module
July 5, 2019
About 300,000 individuals in the United States alone are living with a spinal cord injury, based on data gathered by the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, with nearly 18,000 new cases occurring each year. The injuries can be devastating, having a major impact on daily life, including on bowel and bladder control, the ability […]
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Biomedical Engineering at Michigan: Looking Back
Michigan has been pushing forward the field of biomedical engineering for over 50 years, with incredible technological contributions like ECMO, the silicon neural probe, and the spherocentric knee, to the world-class education of today’s top biomedical engineering minds.
Biomedical Engineering at Michigan: Happening Now
From an engineered scaffold to aid in the early detection of breast cancer metastasis, to a controlled form of ultrasound to non-invasively destroy bad tissue in the body, to a determined mission to enable neural control of prosthetics, Michigan Biomedical Engineering is developing incredible solutions to the worlds most pressing biological and medical challenges.
Biomedical Engineering at Michigan: Moving Forward
Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan is poised to make incredible impact in the fields of engineering, biology and medicine in the years and decades ahead, from innovations in undergraduate and graduate education to groundbreaking research.