Biomedical Engineering

A stained section of lung tissue taken from mice infected with a tuberculosis-like bacteria and treated with an MMP inhibitor shows more stable blood vessels (blue) and a decrease in leaking blood (red) within the granulomas (dark, circular shadows)

April 27, 2018

Cancer Drug Helps Treat Tuberculosis

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Histological sections of liver from control mice treated with saline (left) and the CRISPR/Cas9 epigenetic repression system in which cholesterol levels were lowered (right) show generally normal and healthy tissue

April 26, 2018

Pratt Researchers Advance Treatment That Reduces Blood Cholesterol Levels in Adult Mice

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Duke scientists used MRI scans, computer algorithms and 3-D modeling to reconstruct how ACL tears occurred in 30 people. The motion causing ACL tears appears to be the same in men and women. (Louis DeFrate/Duke University)

April 18, 2018

Study Shows Men and Women Tear ACL the Same Way In Non-Contact Injury

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John Oxaal

April 10, 2018

John Oxaal Named Biomedical Engineering’s First Entrepreneur in Residence

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Element Genomics founders (L-R) Greg Crawford, Tim Reddy, Charles Gersbach and Kris Wood

April 9, 2018

Faculty Startup Sold to Belgian Pharma for $30 Million

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Self-assembled structures formed by fatty-acid-modified elastin-like polypeptides (FAME). Researchers use temperature cues to make the molecules assemble themselves. Photo credit: Davoud Mozhdehi and Kelli Luginbuhl

March 19, 2018

Modified Biomaterials Self-Assemble on Temperature Cues

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An illustrated mouse stands next to a network diagram

March 1, 2018

Networks of Brain Activity Predict Vulnerability to Depression

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

February 21, 2018

New Tool Tells Bioengineers When to Build Microbial Teams

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The facts about head trauma in football

February 13, 2018

Concussions: Conference to Explore the Science and Policy of Head Trauma in Football

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A cross section of a muscle fiber grown from induced pluripotent stem cells. The green indicates muscle cells, the blue is cell nuclei, and the red is the surrounding support matrix for the cells.

January 9, 2018

Engineers Grow Functioning Human Muscle from Skin Cells

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Researchers at Duke University have discovered a way to enhance the effectiveness and safety of sonogenetics or ultrasonic modulation, emerging techniques that use sound waves to control the behavior of individual neurons or to promote tissue growth and w

January 2, 2018

A Safer Route to Ultrasonic Therapy

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Duke's latest inductees to the National Academy of Inventors are (L-R) Joseph Izatt, Nimmi Ramanujam and Tuan Vo-Dinh

December 13, 2017

Three Engineers Named to National Academy of Inventors

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Heart patches could be implanted over dead heart muscle and remain active for a long time

November 28, 2017

Beating Heart Patch is Large Enough to Repair the Human Heart

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Michael Tadross

November 7, 2017

Michael Tadross: Targeting Neuropharmacology with Molecular GPS Technologies

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Tatiana Segura

November 7, 2017

Tatiana Segura: Promoting Healing and Healthy Tissue

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A snap-on invention can make 2-D ultrasound machines much more powerful.

October 31, 2017

The $10 Ultrasound Upgrade Gives Standard 2-D Ultrasound Machines 3-D Imaging Capabilities

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