Biomedical Engineering

Nimmi Ramanujam (center), engineering professor and director of the Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies, shown in her lab at Duke University. (Jared Lazarus / Duke University)

February 5, 2019

Safe, Convenient, Affordable: How a Pocket Device Is Changing Women's Health

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January 16, 2019

Simple Rules Predict and Explain Biological Mutualism

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December 21, 2018

The Year In Good News from the Pratt School of Engineering

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Lingchong You, the Paul Ruffin Scarborough Associate Professor of Engineering at Duke University

December 5, 2018

Distinguishing Resistance from Resilience to Prolong Antibiotic Potency

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Duke employees Jimmie Banks, left, Beky Branagan, top right, and Jessi Cruger, bottom right, have found creative ways to express themselves.

December 4, 2018

Finding a Creative Outlet

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Kushal, Ariel and Claire

November 26, 2018

How Duke's 2019 Rhodes Scholars Excelled in Interdisciplinary Studies

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The Pratt Pouch is a proven innovation for fighting mother-to-child HIV transmission in low-resource settings

November 26, 2018

Small but Mighty, the Pratt Pouch Packs a Punch

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Rhodes Scholars Ariel Kantor, Kushal Kadakia and Claire Wang

November 18, 2018

Three Duke Seniors Named Rhodes Scholars

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Matt Brown discusses the design of the dials used in the endoscopy tool.

October 30, 2018

A Year of Real-World Biomedical Engineering Design

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Woo Center launched

October 23, 2018

Woo Center for Big Data and Precision Health Established at Duke Engineering

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October 22, 2018

Drug Homing Method Helps Rethink Parkinson’s Disease

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The partially ordered protein forms a stable, porous scaffold that can rapidly integrate into tissue and promote the formation of blood vessels.

October 15, 2018

Biomaterials with "Frankenstein Proteins" Help Heal Tissue

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Photo by Chris Hildreth. The "background music" is from Brahms' Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118, which includes the intermezzo Nimmi Ramanujam was learning at the time.

October 9, 2018

The Road to Biomedical Engineering Went Through Brahms

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Yiyang Gong (left) and Michael Tadross (right)

October 5, 2018

In Two NIH Innovator Awards, Yiyang Gong and Michael Tadross Target the Nuanced Behaviors of Neurons

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Macrophages (red) and muscle stem cells (white) within an engineered skeletal muscle tissue disrupted along mature, contractile myofibers (green). Following injury, the macrophages rescue the myofibers from cell death and muscle stem cells activate and co

October 1, 2018

Immune Cells Help Older Muscles Heal Like New

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The ganglion cell layer of the retina is labelled with red to show the presence of a cell sensitive to motion in the upward direction. In low light, these cells pick up the faintest signals of any kind of motion. (Image: Duke, Univ. of Victoria)

September 13, 2018

Eyes Have a Natural Version of Night Vision

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