Category: Research
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‘It’s like you have a hand again’
The approach involves tiny muscle grafts and machine learning algorithms borrowed from the brain-machine interface field.
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Aaron Morris Selected as a TED Fellow
University of Michigan Precision Health Scholar and Biomedical Engineering Postdoc to present at TED2020
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How an AI solution can design new tuberculosis drug regimens
Dubbed INDIGO, short for INferring Drug Interactions using chemoGenomics and Orthology, the software tool has shown that the potency of tuberculosis drugs can be amplified when they are teamed with antipsychotics or antimalarials.
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Debating Bioethics
Participants express a range of ideas, beliefs and opinions — some often diametrically opposed to others. But it remains a respectful environment.
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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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Kelley Elahi Honored with BME Alumni Award
Kelley Elahi, a University of Michigan Biomedical Engineering alumnus, received this year’s Michigan Engineering Outstanding Recent Alumni Award.
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Jon Rowley Receives BME Merit Award
2019 Michigan Biomedical Engineering Merit Award Recipient
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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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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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Overuse, or one bad move? New view on ACL tears prompt questions on how athletes train
New research suggests a reevaluation of the way athletes train and prepare for competition.