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Spartan researchers awarded $2.2 million to investigate how the diets of expecting mothers could affect their babies' heart health.

Michigan State and Stanford researchers have upgraded their Trojan horse therapies designed to fight one of the world's leading causes of death.

Compostable dog poop bags aren't panning out. "Biodegradability is the most used and abused term," said Ramani Narayan. The word carries little regulatory oversight and leaves customers thinking their purchase has a smaller impact on the environment than it does. Story featured in Discover Magazine.

The Institute for Quantitative Health Science & Engineering at Michigan State University and Leica Microsystems, Inc., have combined efforts to establish the MSU IQ Leica Microsystems Center of Excellence. The new center will support a mission to drive new discoveries and insights from scientific research performed using state-of-the-art imaging systems. It will be housed in the MSU Biomedical Engineering Building.

With a nearly $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Michigan State University researchers are using nanoscopic particles to turn the body's own cells into weapons that cancer won't see coming.

Michigan State University's Wen Li and Erin Purcell are leading the effort to use innovative diamond devices to monitor the brain's biochemistry for early warning signs of disease.

The MSU College of Engineering has welcomed nine new faculty members this fall, adding to the diverse engineering and scientific talent available in the college. The college currently has 243 tenure-system faculty educators.

MSU researchers have created for the first time a miniature human heart model in the laboratory, complete with all primary heart cell types and a functioning structure of chambers and vascular tissue. "These minihearts constitute incredibly powerful models in which to study all kinds of cardiac disorders with a degree of precision unseen before," said Aitor Aguirre, the study's senior author and assistant professor of biomedical engineering.

Michigan State University researchers have created for the first time a miniature human heart model in the laboratory, complete with all primary heart cell types and a functioning structure of chambers and vascular tissue.