Biomedical Engineering

Researchers used a new endoscopic OCT system to visualize variances in pig cartilage thickness. The image shows a sketch of a femur and processed OCT images with thin regions shown in dark red and thicker regions more yellow and white. Scale bar is 250 mi

November 15, 2019

Observing the Joint: Duke Engineers Adapt Imaging System to Make It Useful for Minimally Invasive Surgery

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A stained cross section of the new muscle fibers. The red cells are striated muscle fibers, the green areas are receptors for neuronal input, and the blue patches are cell nuclei. (Credit: Bursac Lab)

November 5, 2019

No Ordinary Gel: New Tools to Help the Body Repair Brain and Muscle Tissue

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Vardhman Kumar examines a microfluidic chip.

November 1, 2019

Big Ideas on a Small Chip Surface

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October 29, 2019

How Stabilizing Disordered Proteins May Lead to the Next Generation of Medical Applications

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A bacterial colony genetically edited to include a gene circuit forms a purple ring as it grows. Researchers are using machine learning to discover interactions between dozens of variables that affect the ring’s properties such as its thickness, how fast

October 3, 2019

Machine Learning Is Providing New Insights When the Biology Is Too Complex for Traditional Research

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The Duke Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies aims to investigate and re-engineer the inner workings of cellular gene regulation machinery and networks

October 1, 2019

Taking Aim at the 'Dark' Genome to Uncover New Therapies for Disease

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Duke Teams Earn NIH Funding as Part of National Effort to Combat Opioid Crisis

September 26, 2019

Helping to End Addiction: Duke Teams Win $24 Million Grant to Combat Opioid Crisis

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ILLUSTRATIONS REPRESENTING THE COMPONENTS OF THE COMMON DCAS9 SYSTEM (TOP) AND THE CASCADE SYSTEM (BOTTOM)

September 24, 2019

New CRISPR Approach Expands the Genetic Engineering Toolkit

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Swarmbots

September 17, 2019

Engineering Bacteria Into Beneficial Drug Delivery Tools

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Recombinant proteins may become more important as anti-cancer biologic drugs if they can be delivered in selected combinations by a slow release gel. (Credit: Mandana Manzari)

September 16, 2019

Cancer Therapy Using Genetic Targeting and Gel Delivery Shows Promise

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Dr. Amanda Randles

September 11, 2019

Randles' Cancer Simulations Aims to Be Critical Step Toward Understanding Cancer Metastasis

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Naomi Halas (left) and Jennifer West at Houston's 2012 Art Car Parade. Rice's parade entry honored the engineering researchers for their invention of AuroLase Therapy, a cancer treatment that uses gold nanoparticles to destroy cancer without damaging heal

August 28, 2019

A Milestone Toward Cancer Therapy Without Chemotherapy and Surgery

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photos of cells in OCRT study

August 27, 2019

New Computational Tools Provide Better Medical Images in Living Tissues

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Yu-Ru ‘Vernon’ Shih, a research scientist at Duke University, takes a close look at the tissue integrity of vertebral sections of a mouse with osteoporosis that has been treated by targeting a cell receptor

August 22, 2019

Researchers ID Pharmaceutical Target That Reverses Osteoporosis in Mice

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Working on the design of endoscopy dials. From left to right, Lizbeth Leapo (student), Matt Brown (BME lab instructor), Ashish Vankara (student). Photo credits, Chris Hildreth

August 21, 2019

Hungry for Innovation: How a MEDx Dinner Led to a Newly Patented Medical Tool

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Amanda Randles's revolutionary supercomputer blood flow simulator HARVEY is poised to improve the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of human diseases

August 8, 2019

A Revolutionary Picture of Blood Flow Opens New Avenues for Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

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