For most people, the quest for the perfect strawberry begins and ends in the produce aisle: perusing small towers of clamshell containers – plastic treasure chests of ruby-red fruit – to find the right one to take home and savor. But for Cholani Weebadde, associate professor and Plant Breeder for International Programs at Michigan State …
Making artificial intelligence more reliable Artificial intelligence has entered the mainstream in a way the world has never experienced before. Millions of people are using tools such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion for AI-generated help answering questions, creating images, and accomplishing a host of other tasks. But anyone who has used these systems has probably …
University Distinguished Professor devotes career to cause and effect of air pollution. This summer’s hazy skies caused by the wildfires in Canada prompted air pollution to rise to the center of attention in Michigan and across the nation. Alerts issued by state and federal agencies warning against prolonged outdoor exposure to the lingering smoke gave …
Metabolism regulates far more than just body fat—it encompasses all the various life-sustaining chemical reactions that occur within an organism. When food is broken down into energy, a wide range of metabolites are produced. Primary metabolites help regulate and enable normal growth, while secondary metabolites provide unique advantages to an organism based on adaptations to …
Michigan State University molecular plant scientist Dan Chitwood has received a $640,000 grant, part of a larger $1.5 million collaborative award from the National Science Foundation, to learn how to predict a plant’s phenotype — its observable physical traits — from its genetic makeup or molecular profile. While current sequencing technologies allow the extraction of …
Understanding the intricate puzzle pieces that make up the photosynthetic systems of plants can help researchers know how to grow and create plants that can survive in changing climate conditions. Michigan State University scientists in the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory (PRL) are working to illuminate this understanding by investigating specific chloroplast proteins and the role …
National recognition honors focus on translational research Exceptional leadership in the specialized field of biomechanics has won another national honor for a professor in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University. Tamara Reid Bush was awarded the Savio L-Y. Woo Translational Biomechanics Medal, one of only six recognitions presented annually by the American Society …
Vibrations are typically seen as bad news for quantum information, but new research shows that understanding them can limit losses. Nothing exists in a vacuum, but physicists often wish this weren’t the case. If the systems that scientists study could be completely isolated from the outside world, things would be a lot easier. Take quantum …
Hundreds of scientific and technical leaders in the superconducting radio frequency, or SRF, field converged in Michigan for the 21st International Conference on Radio-Frequency Superconductivity, or SRF 2023. The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, served as host for the premier conference, which ran June 25-30 in Grand Rapids. The Facility for Rare Isotope …
Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating condition that affects 6 million Americans and ranks as the sixth leading cause of death in the nation. It severely impairs patients’ quality of life and has no effective cure. With the aging of the population, the number of Alzheimer’s disease patients is expected to triple by 2060, according to …
