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1/27/2025

How can we make driver assist features play nice together?

Assistant Professor Areen Alsaid says the growing suite of semi-autonomous technologies have the ability to make driving safer, more convenient and less stressful. But we’ll only fully realize these benefits if the learning curve doesn’t confuse drivers.
12/4/2024

Is pH the GPS of our cells?

Scientists used to think acids in our bodies were mostly for building things up or breaking things down. But new research from UM-Dearborn faculty Kalyan Kondapalli and Suvranta Tripathy is pointing to a new fundamental role for pH in our cells.
9/30/2024

The mysterious impacts of head trauma on the blood-brain barrier

With a new NIH-funded project, Associate Professor Dr. Zhi “Elena” Zhang and Assistant Professor Jie Fan are going deep within the brain to learn how head injuries impact one of our body’s most vital systems.

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