The University of Notre Dame has launched the Notre Dame Morphogenetic Bioengineering Initiative (ND-MBI), a cross-disciplinary program that links artificial intelligence and mechanistic bioengineering to better understand how cells communicate with each other to build, maintain, and …
Your laptop might politely sip electricity at your desk, but it has already feasted on a banquet of fossil fuels—through extraction, refining, shipping and assembly—before you even took it out of the box. Recent global surveys show that 70% of consumers are willing to pay more for …
Today’s refrigerants, which are specialized working fluids used in air conditioners, refrigerators, and heat pumps, come with a host of issues including leakage, emissions concerns, flammability, and limited reclamation of used refrigerants. However, a recent study by University of …
As many as 10 million people in the United States live with lymphedema, a chronic condition causing severe, painful swelling of the limbs. Secondary lymphedema occurs when a person’s lymph nodes are damaged, blocked, or impaired. Globally, the most prevalent trigger of secondary lymphedema is …
Earlier this spring, the Notre Dame Sensor Initiative (NDSI) installed two new instruments in the Analytical Science and Engineering (ASEND) core facility, made possible with funding from the Bioengineering and Life Sciences (BELS) Initiative and support …
Shifting sunlight, bubbles, and silt constantly interfere with an autonomous underwater vehicle’s (AUVs) ability to find its way. GPS can’t help them, since water blocks its signals. Sound waves—the pings made famous by submarines—travel rapidly through water, yet they too have their …
While scientists have successfully printed small patches of human tissue, scaling those tissues into full-sized organs has remained elusive. In natural organisms, every cell must be within roughly 100 to 200 micrometers—about the thickness of two human hairs—of a blood vessel to receive oxygen …
The Wireless Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Jonathan Chisum has been granted a two-year experimental license by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), enabling advanced wireless research and real-world 5G experimentation on the University of Notre Dame campus. This experimental …
Four teams of researchers across the College of Science and the College of Engineering have been selected to receive seed funding from the Notre Dame Sensor Initiative (NDSI) for research advancing affordable, fast, and accurate platforms for on-site opioid detection. As opioid …
The heart is a pump that wears out over time—that, at least, was the prevailing view. New research has shown that the heart’s aging results from changes in intercellular communications, which tell heart cells, sometimes even healthy ones, to stiffen and break down. By decoding these complex …