• Faster screening to hit “undruggable” targets

    Medicines made from coiled protein fragments could provide a new handle on hard-to-treat diseases like cancer, but they are difficult to design. A new technique, developed at the University of Michigan, could change that. It can harness bacteria to produce billions of different drug candidates that won’t fall apart quickly inside the body.

    Learn more about this research

  • Launching Solar Orbiter

    For more than a decade, a U-M team helped develop the scientific payload aboard Solar Orbiter. For colleagues Sue Lepri and Jim Raines, this moment has been 13 years in the making.

    Learn more about launch night

  • An ultra-precise mind-controlled prosthetic

    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.

    Learn more about this prosthetics research

  • Ultimate Time Keeper

    Feeling the effects of springing forward? U-M researcher Sara Aton gives tips about how to train your body clock for the time change. Good news: It involves snacks.

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