What does it mean to be a student at a top public research university? As a U of M student, you will part of a community making life-changing discoveries that protect and enhance the health of people around the world.
CBS graduate students made headlines when an an enzyme they discovered was used to develop a test that simplifies the detection of melamine contamination in food. Melamine is an industrial chemical that killed six Chinese children and hospitalized 150,000 last year after it was added to milk to increase its apparent protein content. Testing kits to detect melamine used to cost $550. Using the enzyme discovered at the University, a cheaper, portable test was developed. The new test takes just minutes and costs only $13!
Click here to see a KARE-11 news video about this fascinating discovery, or learn more about University's BioTechnology Institute where the enzyme was developed.
Interested in learning more about how you can get involved in research on campus? Check out the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
What do you want to research? Leave me a comment and tell me about it!
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