Results: the Research and Innovation Magazine of NC State

Innovations of Ultrasound

Revolutionizing medicine through sound

Sensors for the Future of Farming

The power of precision

Artificial Intelligence Powers Innovation

Interdisciplinary research leverages AI

Not only is collecting material with cytology brushes far faster and easier than collecting eraser crumbs, but it also greatly reduces the risk of cross-contamination. If you’re testing an entire book with an eraser, for instance, you must ensure to get up all the crumbs from one page before starting another. “Otherwise, you risk mixing them together,” Stinson says. Plus, from a library’s perspective, using a brush can in some cases be even less invasive than using an eraser. Many manuscripts that have survived hundreds of years aren’t exactly clean. Erasers remove dirt or stains — and leave unsightly white spots. Stinson and his team’s collection technique does not.

Designing Healthy and Resilient Societies

Deciphering the Past with DNA from Parchment Pages

With help from colleagues in the College of Veterinary Medicine, an English professor is examining much more than just what’s written on medieval documents.

How medieval DNA points to past epidemics

Driving Food, Water and Energy Solutions

What Comes First: The Chicken or The Housing for a Cage-Free Egg?

Researchers found that certain hen breeds thrive better in cage-free environments than others — a factor for suppliers to consider in meeting the demand for cage-free eggs.

Balancing animal welfare and market demands

Designing Healthy and Resilient Societies

Microcleaners to Catch Microplastics

Researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering are developing a system that could capture and remove microplastics from water simply by spreading small pellets made of organic material.

Cleansing particles to the rescue

Creating Safe, Secure and Intelligent Systems

Diagnosing Defective Data When Developing AI Models

New research findings demonstrate a novel technique to help correct common errors in AI models even when the cause is unknown.

Making AI more intelligent

Stock image of a highly enmeshed neural network of data points connected in an elaborate grid.

Creating Safe, Secure and Intelligent Systems

Exploring Deep Learning AI for Cancer Treatment

Researchers are harnessing AI to create neural networks, making genetic and medication data 'speak the same language.' The pilot holds potential to tailor cancer care to patients’ DNA.

Deep learning for precision medicine

Exploration

Researchers Create Shape-Shifting ‘Transformer Bots’

Using 3D printing, the researchers engineered a cubed structure made of plastic that can transform into more than 1,000 configurations.

Thinking outside the box

Creating Safe, Secure and Intelligent Systems

Mining Data to Boost Collaborative Learning in Educational Games

NC State University researchers are applying data mining techniques to make educational games more responsive in real time, improving how students develop collaborative problem-solving skills.

Making games responsive in real time

A dinosaur exhibit shows life-sized long-necked and flying dinosaur models against the blue sky of an atrium.

Enriching the Human Experience

Soft-Tissue Samples Can Survive in Several Different Dinosaur Fossils

Recently published research provides further evidence for the preservation of soft tissues and structures through deep time regardless of the species, age or burial environment of the fossils in question.

Discovering the soft tissue of a T.Rex

Exploration

Creating a Brand-new Class of Materials

NC State researchers have created a new class of materials called “glassy gels” that possess properties that could make them an alternative to certain plastics commonly used in today’s products.

Stretching beyond what's possible

Creating Safe, Secure and Intelligent Systems

New Technique Could Help Self-Driving Cars See Their Surroundings Better

Researchers developed a technique to help self-driving cars’ AI programs better map the spaces around them.

Improving safety with AI

Driving Food, Water and Energy Solutions

Trusting Their Gut: Hoofprint Biome

Two NC State Ph.D. grads founded Hoofprint Biome to improve cattle’s gut health and reduce methane — a major contributor to climate change.

Tackling cow digestion to cool the climate

"I’m trying to encourage students, postdocs, other labs and other professors to think about avenues in entrepreneurship and convert their ideas into new products and startup companies.

Thomas Theis, associate professor and Goodnight Distinguished Scholar in Molecular Characterization in the Department of Chemistry.

See how we support entrepreneurship

Designing Healthy and Resilient Societies

New Engine Mimics Muscles in Assistive Devices

A portable engine assists movement through making a soft robot to act like a muscle that can flex and relax.

Making moves in inclusive tech

Innovative Outcomes

Whenever it starts, NC State research finds the same destination: the real world

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Electric Bandages Aim to Innovate Chronic Wound Treatment

A battery-powered bandage is activated by a drop of water and heals wounds 30% faster than conventional methods.

Intelligent design for better health

porous white cylinder floats amid red tubes

Implant Creates CAR-T Cells to Combat Cancer in Mice

The implant attacks cancerous tumors faster than conventional CAR-T cell cancer treatment.

Learn about the biotechnology

See Available Technologies

Protective Ceramic Coatings for Steel Wearable Local Muscle Vibratory Stimulator Microneedle Patch for Disease Detection in Plants

Exploration

Early-stage research happening at NC State

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