Biomedical Engineering

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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Eric Richardson

September 11, 2018

Eric Richardson: Creating New Opportunities through Engineering Design

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A new hand-held ophthalmology instrument allows imaging of photoreceptors in the eyes of young children. It could help to improve the diagnosis of eye diseases and eventually find use in early detection of brain-related diseases and trauma.

August 23, 2018

Handheld Probe Images Photoreceptors in Children

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Samira Musah

August 20, 2018

Samira Musah: Engineering Stem Cell Fate for Applications in Kidney Disease

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Nenad Bursac (left) and Kafui Dzirasa (right)

August 6, 2018

Building a Better Brain

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3D printing airway personalized stents. The airway stent -- shown here on a 3D printer -- uses medical-grade silicone to perfectly fit the interior contours of a patient's trachea.

July 24, 2018

Discovery at the Intersection of Medicine and Engineering

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