Biomedical Engineering

In his nearly four decades on the Duke faculty, Blake Wilson has guided breakthrough research which has helped more than a million people improve their hearing. Photo by Stephen Schramm.

February 21, 2022

Blue Devil of the Week: Behind a Hearing Breakthrough

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Researchers have discovered that a sponge's structure mimics that of soil to produce an environment more hospitable to microbial diversity than most laboratory equipment

February 17, 2022

The Surprising Structural Reason Your Kitchen Sponge is Disgusting

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video on the biomedical pathway to mending a broken heart

February 11, 2022

Mending a Broken Heart

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January 27, 2022

How You Can Help Scientists Better Understand COVID Variants With Wearable Devices

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December 7, 2021

Why You Should Celebrate Work Accomplishments

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December 6, 2021

Rapid Test Identifies Antibody Effectiveness Against COVID-19 Variants

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A new “dual-axis” approach to OCT allows researchers to look deeper beneath biological tissue. Here, a needle point more than one millimeter beneath a mouse’s skin can be seen toward the bottom of the dual-axis image (left) but not in the standard image (

December 3, 2021

Follow the Ghostbusters: Crossing the Beams Brings Deeper Images Beneath the Skin

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Three single-cell images taken by a new high-speed cell holography device. By measuring physical aspects of a cell, researchers can identify signs of disease. Here, the darker, more red colors indicate a taller cell height while the lighter blue indicate

December 1, 2021

High-Speed Holography of Cells Spots Physical Beacons of Disease

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November 24, 2021

Organ-on-a-chip: Better Health Care Through Superior Drug Testing

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October 19, 2021

Kafui Dzirasa Elected to National Academy of Medicine

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The team of Alanna Manfredini, Joanna Peng, Darienne Rogers and Amy Guan show their prototype for a low-cost colostomy bag

September 29, 2021

First-Year Engineering Design Team Impresses at NIH Competition

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The mixture of self-assembling polymers and antibiotics is cured on human intramedullary hip implants using a handheld light source.

September 27, 2021

Antimicrobial Coating for Orthopedic Implants Prevents Dangerous Infections

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While in-person contact was limited during the pandemic, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Informatics Tim Reddy found ways to collaborate with colleagues. Photo by Stephen Schramm.

September 14, 2021

Spirit of Faculty Collaboration Endures

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Duke’s newly developed OCT scanner is attached to a robotic arm that can move the scanner to perfectly align with a patient’s eyes. The scanner requires less than 10 seconds to scan and image each eye.

August 5, 2021

Robotic Scanner Automates Diagnostic Imaging in the Eye

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August 3, 2021

Two New Transgenic Mouse Lines Will Enable Innovative Studies Into Gene Regulation

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June 18, 2021

Duke to Lead National Center for Virtual Imaging Trials

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