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Loring Pasta Bar as seen on Aug. 2, 2017. The restaurant will reopen Aug. 9 as the rebranded LRx: Loring and Pharmacy Bar under new ownership of longtime managers.

Loring Pasta Bar sold; will reopen as LRx: Loring and Pharmacy Bar

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published August 2, 2017
The popular Dinkytown restaurant will be closed for small renovations and reopen on Aug. 9.
From left, University engineering students Simon Peterson, Garrett Ailts, Michael Waataja and Austin Eilers pose for a portrait with weather balloon technology they created to live stream the solar eclipse later this month on Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at at the Physics and Nanotechnology Building on East Bank in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

UMN students to livestream solar eclipse

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published August 2, 2017
Working through a NASA-funded weather balloon project, the students will be the first ever to livestream an eclipse.
University alumnus and Miromatrix CEO Jeff Ross holds a decellularized pig heart at his companys space on Tuesday, July 25, in Eden Prairie, Minn. Miromatrix flushes a detergent through a pig organ by way of a major vessel, which preserves the organs vascularization. The organs are then recellularized to be used as transplants.

Turning pig organs to human organs

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published July 26, 2017
With research stemming from the University of Minnesota, researchers are attempting to repopulate pig organs with human cells.
Monarch butterflies are seen in a mating tent on Thursday, July 20, 2017 in Green Hall in St. Paul. The Conservation Corps, who run the Monarch Joint Venture, are focusing on breeding monarchs for education purposes in the fall.

Citizen science aided research delves into monarch larva population

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published July 21, 2017
Throughout the research, the UMN team may have discovered a new species of parasitic fly.
Marc Tye, manager of the Zebrafish Core Facility, counts the number of zebrafish in a tank on Thursday, July 13, 2017 in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The room is kept at high temperatures to maintain the 28 degrees Celsius water that the zebrafish need to reproduce at the rates needed for research.

Behind UMN research, a ‘cool’ breakthrough in cryopreservation

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published July 17, 2017
University researchers used gold nanoparticles and lasers to freeze and thaw the first live fish embryo.
The Science of Smiles

The Science of Smiles

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published July 12, 2017
A team of University researchers set out to find one thing: What makes a perfect smile?
Seemore the sea turtle swims in her tank behind the scenes at Sea Life at the Mall of America on July 7, 2017. Seemore lost her shell in a boating accident and students from the University of Minnesota used 3D printing to build a new shell.

A shell upgrade for Seemore the sea turtle

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published July 10, 2017
University of Minnesota researchers and students are designing a prosthetic upgrade for an injured sea turtle's shell.

Scientists not renewed for a second term advising the EPA, UMN professor among them

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published July 5, 2017
Decision sparks worry over politicization of what is seen as an nonpartisan science board.
Dr. Uzma Samadani researches how eye movement can help medical professionals classify brain injuries like concussions. Researcher Keenan Ashby watches as a computer tracks a subjects eye movement to show pressure levels in his brain on Thursday, June 22, in the Hennepin County Medical Centers Brain Injury Laboratory.

UMN researcher develops method to detect high skull pressure in space

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published June 28, 2017
The method could lead to a better understanding of papilledema, a worrying problem for astronauts.

Top UMN administrator set to take job in Illinois

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published June 21, 2017
Danita Brown Young will leave in July for a new position as Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs at the University of Illinois.

National Science Foundation discontinues research grant, leaving U grad students disappointed

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published June 20, 2017
Ecologists all over the U.S. are sending letters to the NSF, asking the organization to rescind the decision.

U researchers delve into biodiversity practices

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published June 12, 2017
The researchers reviews were published in a special biodiversity edition of the academic journal Nature.

UMN faculty to Trump: Leaving Paris Agreement will impact U.S.

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published June 8, 2017
University of Minnesota climate and political experts are disappointed in President Donald Trump's decision
A model hand sits under a 3D printing device in a lab in the Mechanical Engineering building on May 23, 2017. Michael McAplines lab has designed a method of 3D printing that could allow for printing on human skin.

UMN researchers create new 3D printing method

by Sydney Baum-Haines
Published June 2, 2017
The method has the potential to print tactile sensors onto prosthetic limbs or surgical robots.

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