2022 in Review: Highlighting Duke Research and Innovation

From the global climate challenge to understanding human health and developing new materials, Duke University Research & Innovation empowered the boldest thinkers to come up with new solutions.

• An artificial soft surface adapts and reshapes itself to match a wide array of objects and motions
• Researchers watch lemurs fatten up for hibernation
• Researchers develop a new gene-based test for measuring your rate of aging
• A rash of kidney disease in Sri Lanka is being traced to climate change and water contamination.
• Cells in your gut can tell the difference between real sugar and Splenda.
• Duke scientists may be able to ‘climate-proof’ plants by boosting their immune systems against warming temperatures.
• American baby boomers lost some IQ points because of lead exposure.
• Eye imaging technology could help robots and cars see better
• A synthetic gel developed at Duke outperforms real knee cartilage.