Cell phones to their ears, a team of research participants will report their interpersonal interactions in real time to provide a better view of human behavior thanks to a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Aging as part of the National Institutes of Health’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.

The University of Michigan launched a new channel on http://www.youtube.com this week to highlight and share advances in stem cell science. This educational effort is supported by the University’s stem cell research programs and commended by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).

A new paper by a team of researchers led by Shahriar Mobashery, Navari Family Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, provides important new insights into the process by which bacteria recycle their cell wall.