biomedical engineering

1. October 9, 2023

   FDA approves histotripsy for liver treatment in humans

   The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of sound waves to break down tumors — a technique called histotripsy, which was pioneered at U-M — in humans for liver treatment.

2. September 11, 2023

   AI tool developed by U-M helps optimize antibody medicines

   New machine-learning algorithms developed at U-M can highlight problem areas in antibodies that make them prone to binding non-target molecules.

3. May 9, 2023

   AI could run a million microbial experiments per year

   An artificial intelligence system that enables robots to conduct autonomous scientific experiments could a drastic leap forward in areas from medicine to agriculture to environmental science.

4. February 23, 2022

   How well do boosters work? Depends on your genes

   Genetics play an important role in how our bodies respond to vaccines and booster shots, suggesting certain protective responses elicited by vaccination could be more effective with personalization, a new study says.

5. March 9, 2020

   ‘It’s like you have a hand again’

   In a major advance in mind-controlled prosthetics for amputees, U-M researchers have tapped faint, latent signals from arm nerves and amplified them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.