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Trial to Reduce Cervical Cancer Screening Disparities in Somali American Women

MSI PI Sophia Yohe (associate professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology) is a co-investigator on a clinical trial that aims to reduce disparities in cervical-cancer screening in Somali American women.

Novel COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

MSI PIs Fang Li (professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences) and Marc Jenkins (Regents Professor, Microbiology and Immunology) and their colleagues have developed a novel vaccine that might be effective against COVID-19 and its variants.

Using Pennycress as a Cover Crop

Research by MSI PIs Donald Wyse (professor, Agronomy and Plant Genetics) and David Marks (professor, Plant and Microbial Biology) is featured in a recent story on the Office of the Vice President for Research Inquiry blog.

Reducing Dairy Cow Mastitis

Mastitis, an infection of mammary tissue, is a serious problem in dairy cows, requiring the use of antibiotics.

Iron and the Developing Brain

Research by MSI PI Phu Tran (assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics) and others is featured in a recent story in Minnesota Alumni magazine.

Treating SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Animals

COVID-19MSI PIs were among the researchers who have developed a possible drug that can both prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infections in animals.

2022 UMII-MnDRIVE PhD Graduate Assistantship Program

UPDATEMSI’s Research Computing partner, the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute (UMII), has opened the application period for the MnDRIVE Graduate Assistantship program.

Improving Ammonia Production

ENGINEERINGMSI PIs Paul Dauenhauer and Prodromos Daoutidis, both professors in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, are part of a project to develop new ways to generate ammonia from renewable energy sources.

August 2021 Maintenance

MAINTENANCEOn Wednesday, August 4, 2021, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems.

Retirement of Old Scratch Hardware

As announced last month, MSI will be retiring its old disk storage hardware that was serving as the global scratch space on Wednesday, August 4.

Brain Mapping for DBS Leads

A treatment for Parkinson’s disease involves the placement of electric leads into specific parts of the brain, a treatment known as deep brain stimulation (DBS).

Converting Carbon Emissions Into Useful Materials

Three MSI PIs in the College of Biological Sciences are leading a new project to develop a bioreactor that can capture CO2 emissions and convert them to formate, a safely storable and transportable liquid that can be used to create other materials.

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