Check out the latest media coverage of Duke biomedical engineering research and education.
Duke BME in the News
IEEE Spectrum |
At Last, Single-Photon Cameras Could Peer Into Your Brain
BME Professor Roarke Horstmeyer comments on the potential biomedical applications of a new method for creating large-scale single-photon detectors.
WRAL Tech Wire |
Duke’s ‘Holographic Brain’ Makes Scans Interactive
BME Professor Cameron McIntyre and colleagues have spent the past seven years developing HoloSNS, a visualization tool that translates human brain scans into interactive holograms.
The News and Observer |
AI Presents ‘Risk of Extinction’: Duke Professors Join 400 Experts in Open Letter
BME Professor Marc Sommer added his name to an open letter saying guarding against human extinction from AI should be a global priority like pandemics or nuclear war. “It sounds like science fiction, but it is something to be concerned about.”
STAT |
In Its First Tough Test, Crispr Epigenome Editing Cuts Cholesterol Levels in Monkeys
Tune Therapeutics, a company spun out of the laboratory of BME Professor Charles Gersbach, has demonstrated that its CRISPR-based technology can modulate gene regulation in monkeys to cut LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, by more than 50%.
STAT |
Proposed Rules to Protect Health Data in an Era of Abortion Bans Fall Short
BME Professor Jessilyn Dunn joins DCRI and Duke Medicine faculty in an opinion piece that argues a draft from the Biden administration for a new rule that places new prohibitions on certain disclosures of personal health information that may be used to punish care seekers and care providers in the conduct of lawful health care falls short of its mark.
Wall Street Journal |
Gene-Edited Cells Move Science Closer to Repairing Damaged Hearts
BME Professor Nenad Bursac comments about the advantages of using a "heart patch" to try to repair damaged hearts rather than an injection.
LiveScience |
Kaleidoscopic image of a mouse's brain is 64 million times sharper than a typical MRI
Duke researchers created a high-definition scan of a mouse's brain that is 64 million times sharper than a normal MRI.
Digital Journal |
Gaining New Insights Into Nature Through a Multi-Image Microscope
Roarke Horstmeyer
The News and Observer |
Miscarriage Is Awful. It Just Became Much Worse With Abortion Pill Ruling
BME professor Jessilyn Dunn offers a personal commentary about miscarriage and how mifepristone helped her through her own experience.