Musculoskeletal disorders account for nearly 30% of all workplace injuries in the U.S., costing an estimated $45 billion to $54 billion each year in medical recovery and workers’ compensation, according to The University of Texas at Arlington.

Engineers at UTA are working on a potential way to reduce that toll.…

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Dallas-area researchers have earned three of the five 2026 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards from TAMEST (Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science & Technology), showing the region’s strength in engineering, physics, and biomedical discovery.

The Dallas honorees—two from The University of Texas at Dallas and one from UT Southwestern Medical Center—were named alongside recipients from Baylor College of Medicine and bp.…

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A University of Texas at Arlington computer science professor has secured $3.1 million in federal funding to tackle one of medicine’s most time-consuming challenges: figuring out which antibodies will successfully bind to disease-causing targets.

Junzhou Huang, the Jenkins Garrett Endowed Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, will use the National Institutes of Health R01 award to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in antibody drug discovery—research the university says could strengthen responses to future pandemics.…

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Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool in identifying high-risk breast cancer cases, allowing for quicker reviews by radiologists, according to two information systems professors at the University of Texas at Dallas.

That’s important, UT Dallas said, because breast cancer rates, particularly among younger women, have been rising since 2012 while the number of radiologists in the U.S.…

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With funding from the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Security Agency, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard Development Co., University of Texas at Dallas computer scientists were able to make a video game cheat detection mechanism. The team’s research has since been published in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.…

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Millions believe they’re safe from COVID-19 because of a magic elixir: youth. While it’s true that people under 50 are less likely to be hospitalized or die from coronavirus, a new UT Southwestern study has found a wrinkle in that belief: if you’re overweight, being younger doesn’t protect you from the dangers of COVID-19.…

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Researchers from the University of North Texas College of Engineering in Denton are participating in a new $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to advance the use of 3D printed materials on automotive body frames.

The UNT team will be part of a collaborative effort from the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the DOE’s largest science and energy laboratory.…

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