News & Events
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Research From Hoogkamer and Team Shows That “Super Spikes” Can Increase Track Running Speed By 2%
With the track and field events in the 2024 Paris Olympics taking over the media, the study provides a timely answer to the question of how large the impact of super spikes on running performance is.
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Sarah Perry to Receive American Chemical Society Young Investigator Award
Sarah Perry, associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, CBD, M2M, has been chosen as one of two national recipients of the 2024 American Chemical Society (ACS) Young Investigator Award for her contributions to the...
IALS/Core Facilities
CH2P Validates Wearable Sweat Monitor Used To Protect Workers From Dehydration and Workplace Accidents
CH2P researchers partnered with Epicore Biosystems to validate Connected Hydration, a new wearable sweat and hydration monitor by Epicore. Connected Hydration is designed for “industrial athletes,” or people in occupations that...
IALS/M2M
Alicia Timme-Laragy Offers Expertise to National Academies Committee on Role of Seafood in Child Development
Timme-Laragy served as a technical expert to advise NASEM staff on the design, structure, and implementation of a systematic review to support the study, and to serve as an advisor to the committee regarding the structure and conduct of the systematic review.
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Researchers Led By UMass Use Genetic Probe Microscopy to Solve 2000-Year-Old Mystery of the Shipworm
This advanced microscopy technique helped researchers discover that shipworms have hidden clusters of bacterial symbionts with the capability to produce lignin-digesting enzymes embedded in their digestive tracts.
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IALS Researchers Among Those Awarded Four 2024 Seed Grants By Institute of Diversity Sciences
IALS faculty members Shelly Peyton, Courtney Babbitt, Ashish Kulkarni, Maureen Perry-Jenkins, and S. Thayumanavan were on teams awarded IDS seed grants.
IALS/CBD/M2M
Martin and Perry to Help Launch the Future of RNA Research and Biomedicine
Craig Martin and Sarah Perry recently received support from the NIH to develop an innovative approach toward synthesizing novel strands of specialty "long RNA."
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Rebecca Spencer's Unprecendented Research Probes the Relationship Between Sleep and Memory In Napping Babies and Young Children
Sleep scientist Rebecca Spencer, funded with $6.7 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched two unprecedented studies that will track over time the brain development of infants and preschoolers to confirm the role of napping in early life and to...
IALS/CPHM
Hoogkamer and Huber Create Robotic Hip Exoskeleton To Help Stroke Patients Regain Their Stride
More than 80% of stroke survivors experience walking difficulty, significantly impacting their daily lives, independence, and overall quality of life. Now, new research from UMass Amherst pushes forward the bounds of stroke recovery with a unique robotic hip exoskeleton, designed as a training...
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IALS and MassAITC Host “Powering Healthy Aging” Event at Hadley Senior Center
IALS, in partnership with the Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging & Alzheimer's Disease, shared best health practices to enable older aults to continue to live independently and explained how technologies being developed for older adults can support these best...
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Health Tech for the People Announces Spring 2024 Graduate Student Fellows
Health Tech for the People (HT4P), funded by IALS/CPHM, is a new thrust focusing on the ethics of technology and accountable, human-centered design, evaluation and translation of health monitoring technologies for the public interest.
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Genomics Resource Laboratory Utilized in Broadest-Ever Study of Primate Brains to See How Gene Expression Influences Brain Evolution
A team of researchers led by biologists at UMass Amherst recently published the results of a first-of-its-kind study investigating the links between gene expression and brain evolution across 18 primate species.
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Jun Yao and Team Create Bioelectronic Mesh Capable of Growing With Cardiac Tissues for Comprehensive Heart Monitoring
A team of engineers led by UMass Amherst recently announced that they had successfully built a tissue-like bioelectronic mesh system integrated with an array of atom-thin graphene sensors that can simultaneously measure both the electrical signal and the physical movement of cells in lab-grown...
Venture Development
UMass Startups Win Top Prizes at Lever's 2024 Western Massachusetts Health Tech Challenge
Ernest Pharmaceuticals and Organicin Scientific have won the top prizes at Lever’s 2024 Western Massachusetts Health Tech Challenge.
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Ravi Ranjan Presents at Advances in Genome Biology and Technology Conference
Genomics Resource Laboratory Director Ravi Ranjan recently presented at the 2024 Advances in Genome Biology and Technology General Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The presentation, “Streamlined for speed: NEBNext UltraExpress for DNA and RNA library...
