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Lab-on-a-chip offers faster means of identifying best plasma donors in COVID fight
October 1, 2020
University of Michigan collaboration with Hackensack Meridian CDI offers new pathway to identify antibodies. A new, portable lab-on-a-chip developed at the University of Michigan can identify the presence of COVID-19 antibodies in blood with greater speed and efficiency than the current standard “enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay” or ELISA technology. With assistance from U-M startup Optofluidic Bioassay and Hackensack Meridian […]
Read more »New treatments for deadly lung disease could be revealed by 3D modeling
September 11, 2020
Traditional 2D research may rule out better treatment options. A 3D bioengineered model of lung tissue built by University of Michigan researchers is poking holes in decades worth of flat, Petri dish observations into how the deadly disease pulmonary fibrosis progresses. The causes of pulmonary fibrosis are not fully understood, but the condition is marked […]
Read more »Brain interface pioneers find meaningful signal in the grey matter noise
July 28, 2020
by Dan Newman, Michigan Robotics Institute By tuning into a subset of brain waves, University of Michigan researchers have dramatically reduced the power requirements of neural interfaces while improving their accuracy. This discovery could lead to long-lasting brain implants that can both treat neurological diseases and enable mind-controlled prosthetics and machines. The team, led by Cynthia […]
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