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July 24, 2024
“(It can be used) to better modulate immune responses. And in our food allergy models, inulin gel has shown great efficacy,” said James Moon, professor of pharmaceutical sciences, whose team has been working on a new approach to treating allergies — using a plant-derived dietary fiber called inulin to interact with bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract.
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July 24, 2024
Ketra Armstrong, professor of sport management and director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport, says a new generation of athletes is pushing back against hair discrimination: “For a while, Black women have had to make themselves presentable in a way that wasn’t perceived to be unkept or unprofessional. Black women were judged by their hair, called not professional or not qualified. We’re at a point now where Black women are reclaiming their crown.”
NBC News -
July 24, 2024
“I wanted a platform that’s readily available to most babies, and that could be used in existing neonatal intensive-care units,” said George Mychaliska, professor of pediatric surgery, whose team is developing an artificial placenta that focuses “on gas exchange and maintaining blood pressure, heart rate and fetal circulation while the premature organs are protected and continue developing.”
BBC -
July 24, 2024
“(The Brazil nut plant) is one of the 20 most-species rich families of trees in the Amazon forest, and third in terms of biomass providing important ecological services such as carbon sequestration and food resources for pollinators and seed dispersers,” said Diana Medellin-Zabala, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology, whose research is expanding the knowledge about neotropical biodiversity and its dynamics across time and space.
Forbes -
July 24, 2024
“It is eerie that she could project forward 30 years and predict many of the events that we’ve seen over the past few decades long before they developed,” said Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, associate professor of education, about Octavia Butler’s 1993 “Parable of the Sower,” a dystopian novel that takes place in an America that has fallen victim to economic and environmental catastrophes.
Michigan Public (32:14 mark) -
July 17, 2024
Research by Aster Taylor, doctoral student in astronomy, suggests that up to 60% of near-Earth objects could be dark comets that might have been one of the sources of water to our blue planet. “We don’t know if these dark comets delivered water to Earth. … (But) the work we’ve done has shown that this is another pathway to get ice from somewhere in the rest of the solar system to the Earth’s environment.”
Earth.com -
July 17, 2024
“How quickly muscle can contract or how many ways muscle can generate power have new and unexpected answers when one takes a more integrated and holistic view of muscle as a complex and hierarchically organized material rather than just a bag of molecules. Muscle is more than the sum of its parts,” said Suraj Shankar, assistant professor of physics.
Press News Agency -
July 17, 2024
Climate migration narratives that tell the stories of refugees displaced by ecological catastrophe don’t change people’s views of global warming or compel them to support stronger climate policy, says Kaitlin Raimi, associate professor of public policy: “The research is a little mixed, but it mostly suggests personal narratives are better for making audiences feel connected.”
Bloomberg -
July 17, 2024
A mask that uses an air curtain blowing down from the brim of a hard hat can prevent airborne viruses from reaching a worker’s eyes, nose and mouth, says Herek Clack, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, whose startup developed the headworn tech: “It’s virtually unheard of — our level of protection against airborne germs, especially when combined with the improved ergonomics it also provides.”
U.S. News & World Report -
July 17, 2024
“After this ruling, the character of a presidential candidate is not just relevant; it is absolutely the paramount consideration. A president who enjoys such vast immunity from criminal accountability in the courts will largely be constrained only by their own moral conscience,” wrote Len Niehoff, professor from practice of law, about the Supreme Court’s recent decision that gives a president broad immunity from criminal prosecution for acts performed while in office.
The Detroit News
