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State Invests $100.5M in UMass Amherst Life Sciences Initiatives
Graduate students test the equipment on the treadmill in the lab.
Proactive Health
Researchers test and validate wearable sensors to improve health management
Salthouse and graduate student Akshaya Shanmugam with 3D printed imaging jig
Digitizing Biology
Engineers design new diagnostic and imaging technologies for personalized health monitoring
Up close detail of an accelerometer in red
Accelerometer: Assessing Physical Activity Dose for Health
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Resource Economist Sylvia Brant Reveals the High Costs of Asthma
Close up colorful image of the structure of the human GALNS protein
Up Close: Unlocking the Basic Mechanisms of Lysosomal Storage Diseases
UMass Amherst Professor Lisa Chasan-Taber and images of pregnant women
Improving Women’s Health
International expert sheds light on physical activity and pregnancy
Fingers hold a vial containing a nanogel precursor polymer solution
On Target
Polymeric nanogels aid in more efficient drug delivery
Life Sciences Laboratory Building Facade
Building Momentum
Life Science Laboratories open avenue for innovation
Brain scans and magnified brain cell
Brain, Disrupted
The environmental effects of toxins on brain development
Andrea Foulkes and Nicholas Reich stand in the Integrated Sciences Building
‘Big’ Discoveries
Next-generation analytics lead to biomedical insights
Surface representations of four human sulfatase proteins
Molecular Model
Structural biologists chart path for potential chaperone therapy to treat group of genetic diseases