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Researcher Sibei Xia of the LSU Department of Textiles, Apparel Design, and Merchandising is exploring ways to use 鈥渟mart clothing鈥� to track newborns鈥� temperatures through thermochromic yarn that changes color based on body temperature.

鈥淚f the newborn鈥檚 temperature goes really high, it鈥檚 going to change the hat to a beige color so that we don鈥檛 have to necessarily measure the temperature that often or use other technologies to monitor temperature,鈥� Xia said.

The Provost鈥檚 Fund for Innovation in Research is funding this emerging research. It supports interdisciplinary research in five priority areas, including biotechnology and agriculture.