Research News

May 19, 2022 | Duke Eye Center
Physician-Engineer Collaborators Talk Team Science at Major Ophthalmic Conference
Duke Opthalmologist Cynthia Toth and Biomedical Engineer Joseph Izatt told the ARVO 2022 audience about how their 20 years of intense teamwork across multiple disciplines has positively impacted ophthalmic research

May 18, 2022
Using Light and Sound to Reveal Rapid Brain Activity in Unprecedented Detail
Duke researchers use a combination of hardware innovations and machine learning algorithms to create the fastest photoacoustic imaging tool available

May 03, 2022 | Duke MEDx News
Teamwork: A Duke Engineer, a Duke Medical Scientist and the Search for an HIV Vaccine
Duke School of Medicine's Genevieve Fouda and Duke Engineering's Joel Collier formed a powerful research partnership

April 21, 2022
COVID-19 Can Infect and Damage Human Kidney Cells
Duke researchers showed that SARS-CoV-2 can infect kidney cells via multiple binding sites and hijack the cell’s machinery to replicate, causing injury and COVID-19-associated kidney disease

April 05, 2022
Tiny Jumping Genes Fingered as Culprit in Rise of Antibiotic Resistance
Activity levels of transposons provide the handle needed for selection to spread antibiotic resistance from wild microbes to human pathogens

March 29, 2022
How Eye Imaging Technology Could Help Robots and Cars See Better
Researchers are applying lessons learned from decades of perfecting eye-imaging technologies to tomorrow’s autonomous systems sensor technologies

March 04, 2022 | Duke Science & Technology
Tatiana Segura: A Stroke Healing Gel
The efforts of Segura's Duke BME lab are leading to transformative outcomes for stroke, brain damage, bone malformation, and more.

February 01, 2022 | Duke Health
Expanding the Armamentarium of Surgical Options for Epilepsy, Movement Disorders
Cameron McIntyre and other Duke neural engineers are developing innovative technologies for awake deep brain stimulation and advancing interneuron transplantation research

January 25, 2022
Gene Expression Could Ring Early Kidney Disease Alarm
Stem cell model helps researchers identify potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets for early kidney disease

January 07, 2022
Jessica Shah Selected as Pratt Research Fellow
Shah, an undergraduate student in the Musah Lab, will explore how to create improved models of kidney disease