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Ann Arbor
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The University of Michigan College of Engineering is ranked among the top engineering schools in the country. Michigan Engineering boasts one of the largest engineering research budgets of any public university, at $135 million for 2004. Michigan Engineering has 11 departments and two NSF Engineering Research Centers. Within those departments and centers, there is a special emphasis on research in three emerging areas: nanotechnology and integrated microsystems; cellular and molecular biotechnology; and information technology. The College is seeking to raise $110 million for capital building projects and program support in these areas to further research discovery. The CoE's goal is to advance academic scholarship and market cutting edge research to improve public health and well being. For more information see the CoE home page: http://www.engin.umich.edu/index.html |
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A new study indicates that the elderly ages 85 and older mainly worry about health and memory, and some will seek more social contact as their worries increase with age. |
20 April 2007 |
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White, low-income women are more likely to seek outpatient services to treat mental health problems than their African American counterparts, a new study shows. |
19 April 2007 |
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Combining synthetic chemistry techniques with a knowledge of the properties and actions of enzymes, scientists have been able to produce an exciting class of anti-cancer drugs originally isolated from blue-green algae. |
18 April 2007 |
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Forest fires release more mercury into the atmosphere than previously recognized, a multidisciplinary research project at the University of Michigan suggests. |
17 April 2007 |
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A surprising discovery at the University of Michigan about how nanoparticles self-assemble into structures that resemble viruses gives scientists key insight into how common disease producing viruses might form in our bodies. |
16 April 2007 |
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Not only does one treatment not fit all, but over the long haul, one treatment probably won't fit anyone suffering from depression, substance abuse problems, HIV infection and many other chronic conditions, according to a University of Michigan researcher. |
15 April 2007 |
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A new online Minority Data Resource Center at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research provides easy analysis of a wide range of topics related to racial and ethnic minority populations in the U.S. |
14 April 2007 |
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Research on disease processes will accelerate with a new multi-purpose protein database launched by the University of Michigan. This new tool will help biomedical scientists digest the enormous volumes of data being produced by modern biotechnology. |
13 April 2007 |
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A single protein in brain cells may act as a linchpin in the body’s weight-regulating system, playing a key role in the flurry of signals that govern fat storage, sugar use, energy balance and weight, University of Michigan Medical School researchers report. |
12 April 2007 |
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Black Caribbean immigrants now make up more than one-quarter of the Black population in New York City, Boston, Miami and other U.S. cities. But until now, little has been known about this growing segment of the increasingly diverse U.S. Black population. |
11 April 2007 |
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A new company, Biotectix LLC, is being formed around intellectual property developed at the University of Michigan that could dramatically improve the functionality of medical devices that are implanted in the body, such as pacemakers and cochlear implants. |
10 April 2007 |
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A robotic exoskeleton controlled by the wearer's own nervous system could help users regain limb function, which is encouraging news for people with partial nervous system impairment, say University of Michigan researchers. |
09 April 2007 |
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The recently endangered peregrine falcon of North America got a health checkup of sorts and the prognosis looks good. A team of population geneticists, including a University of Michigan graduate student, got an unexpected result when they measured levels of DNA variation in the current cohort of falcons. |
08 April 2007 |
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The natural consequences of growing old include slower wound-healing and a brain that makes fewer new neurons because old tissues have less regenerative capacity. What has not been clear is why. A trio of papers published the journal Nature shows that old stem cells don’t simply wear out, they actively shut themselves down, probably as a defense against becoming cancerous from genetic defects that accumulate with age. |
07 April 2007 |
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Though washing hands and wearing masks are widely recommended as approaches that might prevent the spread of a global killer influenza, apparently nobody actually has any data on whether these things would work, says study leader Arnold Monto, professor of epidemiology in the U-M School of Public Health and an international authority on respiratory disease. |
06 April 2007 |
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U-M social psychologist Daniel J. Kruger conducted a series of on-line experiments showing 854 male and female undergraduate students versions of composite male faces that had been altered to look more or less masculine by adjusting, for example, the shape of the jaw, the strength of brow ridges and the thickness of lips. |
05 April 2007 |
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University of Michigan researchers are leading an 11-university consortium to gather and bank DNA samples from 3,000 autism patients over the next three years. |
04 April 2007 |
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Doctoral student Abir Biswas, the paper's lead author, came up with the idea for the project when he was a student at U-M's Camp Davis Rocky Mountain Field Station near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Wildfires were burning all around the station that summer, and smoke blanketed the camp. Around that time, Biswas happened to read a new scientific paper suggesting the possible role of fires in global mercury emissions. |
03 April 2007 |
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Children who get high levels of intellectual stimulation at home, such as books and educational games, had parents who rarely used physical punishment, a new University of Michigan study indicates. |
02 April 2007 |
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University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have discovered the small number of cells in pancreatic cancer that are capable of fueling the tumor's growth. The finding is the first identification of cancer stem cells in pancreatic tumors. |
01 April 2007 |
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The beginnings of precious metals like gold can be traced to the blink of an eye in an exploding star billions of years ago, and scientists at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University have been able to scrutinize a crucial step in that process. |
15 April 2005 |
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It's possible to grow thin films of mother of pearl in the laboratory that are even stronger than the super-strong material that naturally lines the inside of abalone shells. The trick is to add compounds normally found in insect shells and fungi cell walls to the recipe. |
16 March 2005 |
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A University of Michigan team that previously demonstrated improved accuracy with intravascular sensors that were coated with nitric oxide-releasing polymers has promising preliminary results with a new strategy: creating polymer coatings that generate nitric oxide from components already in the blood. |
15 March 2005 |
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For all its promise, the prospect of using nanoparticles in biomedical applications and consumer products has raised concerns about possible harmful effects of the miniscule materials. Scientists at the University of Michigan are addressing those concerns by investigating how certain kinds of nanoparticles damage cell membranes - enough to cause cell death in some cases - and how the damage can be prevented. |
15 March 2005 |
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