Research
With expenditures in excess of $1 billion, research is central to U-M’s mission and permeates all 19 schools and colleges. U-M is a strong advocate of promoting collaboration and interdisciplinary research initiatives that involve faculty and students from across campus.

U-M researchers have demonstrated organic solar cells that can achieve 8 percent efficiency.
Research Attention
Below are 25 research outputs that have received attention in the news, social media and other digital sources in the past week ranging from “mainstream” sources to citations. This work from University of Michigan researchers represents a tiny fraction of the more than 263,000 research outputs produced by our academic community.
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Regeneration leads to global tissue rejuvenation in aging sexual planarians
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Evidence on sex differences in sports performance
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Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains
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Prenatal phthalate exposure and adverse birth outcomes in the USA: a prospective analysis of births and estimates of attributable burden and costs
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Indoor bioaerosols and asthma: Overview, implications, and mitigation strategies
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How people think about being alone shapes their experience of loneliness
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Buprenorphine Treatment Divide by Race/Ethnicity and Payment
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Families Affected by Parental Substance Use
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Slouching towards engagement: interactions between people using psychedelics naturalistically and their healthcare providers
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Naturalistic Psychedelic Use: A World Apart from Clinical Care
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Loneliness and Social Internet Use: Pathways to Reconnection in a Digital World?
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Trajectory of Cognitive Function After Incident Heart Failure
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parental vaccine hesitancy: A cross-sectional survey
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When Direct Oral Anticoagulants Should Not Be Standard Treatment JACC State-of-the-Art Review
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Interim Estimates of 2024–2025 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness — Four Vaccine Effectiveness Networks, United States, October 2024–February 2025
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Potassium homeostasis and management of dyskalemia in kidney diseases: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference
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Enabling 6C fast charging of Li-ion batteries at sub-zero temperatures via interface engineering and 3D architectures
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Fungal impacts on Earth’s ecosystems
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Green hydrogen pathways, energy efficiencies, and intensities for ground, air, and marine transportation
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Bidirectional Associations Between Mental Health Disorders and Chronic Diabetic Complications in Individuals With Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes.
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Sotatercept in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension at High Risk for Death
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Vaccinating against Clostridioides difficile Infection
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Choice and Duration of Anticoagulation for Venous Thromboembolism
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Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission
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Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis: An International Delphi Consensus on Clinical Trial Design and Endpoints