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Children Born with HIV Achieve Over a Year of Remission After Pausing Treatment
Four children who acquired HIV in utero have remained free of detectable HIV for more than one year, according to new findings that were presented today, March 6, at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in…
Northwestern University to Confer Honorary Degrees upon Four Distinguished Alumni
Northwestern University will present honorary degrees to four highly accomplished alumni during its 166th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 9, at the United Center in Chicago.
This year’s recipients are former professional tennis…
Northwestern University Receives $10 Million Gift to Advance Collaboration in Social Sciences and…
Northwestern University Trustee Steven A. Cahillane ’87 and Tracy Tappan Cahillane ’88 (’17, ’19 P) have made a $10 million gift toward the renovation of the Donald P. Jacobs Center on the University’s Evanston campus, kick-starting a…
Ultrasound Stickers with Shape-Shifting Abilities Designed to Detect Post-Surgical Complications
Researchers led by Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new, first-of-its-kind sticker that enables clinicians to monitor the health of patients’ organs and deep tissues with…
Northwestern University Collaborates with Rebuilding Exchange to Preserve Ryan Field Memorabilia
Demolition teams are busy breaking down Ryan Field to make way for a new state-of-the-art facility. But there is plenty of the stadium’s 97-year history to go around.
Northwestern has partnered with Rebuilding Exchange, an Evanston and…
Thousands of Natural History Specimens CT-Scanned by Scientists, Available for Free Access
Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of open Vertebrate (oVert), a five-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to create 3D…
U-M Researchers Make Strides in Anti-HIV Drug Development, Leveraging Compound from Nature
A team of University of Michigan researchers has successfully modified a naturally occurring chemical compound in the lab, resulting in advanced lead compounds with anti-HIV activity.
Their results, published March 7…
Breakthrough Discovery: Researchers Uncover Protein Responsible for Sensation of Cold
University of Michigan researchers have identified the protein that enables mammals to sense cold, filling a long-standing knowledge gap in the field of sensory biology.
The findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, could help unravel…
Exploring the Science: Understanding Why Some Wake Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed
It’s always darkest before the dawn for many people, and now, a University of Michigan and Dartmouth Health study has looked into the science of waking up on the wrong side of the bed.
The study, which uses the Fitbit…
Streamlined and Reliable: Experimental Process for Protein Engineering Unveiled
A protein engineering method using simple, cost-effective experiments and machine learning models can predict which proteins will be effective for a given purpose, according to a new study by University of Michigan researchers.
The…