Biomedical Engineering

Naomi Halas (left) and Jennifer West at Houston's 2012 Art Car Parade. Rice's parade entry honored the engineering researchers for their invention of AuroLase Therapy, a cancer treatment that uses gold nanoparticles to destroy cancer without damaging heal

August 28, 2019

A Milestone Toward Cancer Therapy Without Chemotherapy and Surgery

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photos of cells in OCRT study

August 27, 2019

New Computational Tools Provide Better Medical Images in Living Tissues

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Yu-Ru ‘Vernon’ Shih, a research scientist at Duke University, takes a close look at the tissue integrity of vertebral sections of a mouse with osteoporosis that has been treated by targeting a cell receptor

August 22, 2019

Researchers ID Pharmaceutical Target That Reverses Osteoporosis in Mice

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Working on the design of endoscopy dials. From left to right, Lizbeth Leapo (student), Matt Brown (BME lab instructor), Ashish Vankara (student). Photo credits, Chris Hildreth

August 21, 2019

Hungry for Innovation: How a MEDx Dinner Led to a Newly Patented Medical Tool

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Amanda Randles's revolutionary supercomputer blood flow simulator HARVEY is poised to improve the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of human diseases

August 8, 2019

A Revolutionary Picture of Blood Flow Opens New Avenues for Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

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This OCT system designed at Duke University is 15 times lighter and smaller than current commercial systems and is made from parts costing less than a tenth the retail price of commercial systems.

June 30, 2019

Low Cost & Clinically Accurate: New Retinal Scanner Could Prevent Blindness Worldwide

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Celia Mizelle, left, with a colleague in Peru

May 6, 2019

Class of 2019: Learning What It Takes to Take Innovative Health Care Global

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An artist’s representation of the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic sequence with the “hairpin” lock added to the left side of the system, which increases its precision by an average of 50-fold

April 15, 2019

Engineering 'Hairpins' Increases Accuracy of CRISPR Genome Editing

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This video from two-photon imaging shows neurons firing in a mouse brain. Recordings like this enable researchers to track which neurons are firing, and how they potentially correspond to different behaviors.

April 12, 2019

Watching Neurons at Work, Using Artificial Intelligence

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Mercy Asiedu with Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by Adam Schultz.

April 10, 2019

Ph.D. Student's Innovative Engineering to Treat Cervical Cancer Wins Prestigious Fellowship

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March 25, 2019

Chapel to Display Student’s Paintings of Religious Scenes from India

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March 4, 2019

US Military Turns to Duke Students for Tech, Design Talent

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reception at "(in)Visible Organ" exhibit in the Ruby

February 27, 2019

A Breakthrough in Cervical Cancer Treatment Inspires a Ruby Art Exhibit

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Researchers have found that a single CRISPR-based genetic treatment can remain stable in an adult mammal for more than a year

February 18, 2019

Single Genetic Editing Treatment Provides Long-Term Benefits in Mice

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Photoacoustic imaging shows the absolute temperatures elevated by high-intensity focused ultrasound in small animal models at one, three and five seconds.

February 13, 2019

Novel Light and Sound Imaging Could Greatly Enhance Cancer Therapies

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A biomedical tool that tricks aggressive brain tumors such as glioblastoma into migrating into an external container rather than throughout the brain has been designated a “Breakthrough Device” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

February 6, 2019

Brain Tumor 'Pied Piper' Device Earns Breakthrough Status

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