Biomedical Engineering

The Co-Lab Studio on West Campus features around 60 3-D printers that are open to Duke students, staff and faculty.

October 24, 2017

Where Creativity Becomes Reality

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Duke and Makerere BME students during the Spring Break trip to Uganda earlier this year.

October 18, 2017

Building Biomedical Engineering Capacity through Educational Partnerships

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Black dots mark gold nanoparticles that have been attracted to the surface of pressure-sensitive domes constructed by engineered bacteria.

October 9, 2017

Bacteria Self-Organize to Build Working Sensors

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This lung-on-a-chip serves as an accurate model of human lungs to test for drug safety and efficacy. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University Photo

September 15, 2017

Tissue Chips Take Aim at Atherosclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis

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A new NSF grant awarded to a team of engineers from Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis will allow them to further explore new self-assembling materials, which can be designed using machine-learning approaches. The design of these biolo

September 11, 2017

Pushing Science and Engineering to Create New Soft Materials

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An oil painting by Conrad Wise Chapman, “Submarine Torpedo Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863”

August 23, 2017

Confederate Submarine Crew Killed By Their Own Weapon

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A gold nanostar under an electron microscope. The nanostar’s size causes it to accumulate within tumors, where researchers use infrared light to heat it and destroy cancerous growths.

August 17, 2017

Gold Nanostars and Immunotherapy Vaccinate Mice Against Cancer

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Progeria is a childhood disease with symptoms that resemble accelerated aging

August 14, 2017

Artificial Blood Vessels Mimic Rare Accelerated Aging Disease

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A woman in Tanzania gives her newborn baby antiretroviral drugs from a Pratt Pouch.

August 10, 2017

Tiny Packet Is Making a Big—and Growing—Dent in Childhood HIV

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A prototype of the D4 assay

August 8, 2017

Inkjet-Printed Tool Enables Sensitive Diagnostic Testing in Point-of-Care Settings

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July 17, 2017

Duke Students Create Robot for Amazon Challenge

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An image showing an overhead view of the brain with red lines indicating connections within the brain

June 23, 2017

Chatter in the Deep Brain Spurs Empathy in Rats

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A newly optimized version of a diabetes treatment forms a “depot” for controlled release that persists more than 24 hours.

June 5, 2017

Injectable Solution May Provide Weeks of Glucose Control

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Andrew George, Representative Marcia Morey (Durham County), Senator Terry Van Duyn (Buncombe County), Sharlini Sankaran, Dan Keeley, and Will Barclay at the NC legislative building.

June 1, 2017

Duke Scientists Visit Raleigh to Share Their Work

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A prototype of the speculum-free “pocket colposcope” being developed by Duke University produces images on a smart phone or laptop and can make cervical cancer screening more accessible to women living in low-resource areas.

May 31, 2017

New Tech Promises Easier Cervical Cancer Screening

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A look at the cellular difference between brain cells involved in a severe concussion (left) versus a minor concussion (right).

May 22, 2017

Duke Joins $9.25M Project to Understand Concussion and Improve Recovery

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