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BME Professor Amanda Randles pens a piece outlining the historical and future use of machine learning in medical applications, including her own work to understand the role a patient’s blood flow can have in classifying the severity of coronary lesions.

Research from Jessilyn Dunn has shown that heart rate variability may drop when people get COVID-19, flu or the common cold, which in turn affects health and well-being. 

Junjie Yao helps decipher how a species of frog becomes a master of camouflage with the help of modern biomedical imaging techniques.

The National Institutes of Health covers a recent study from Ashutosh Chilkoti that investigates a new form of brachytherapy where radiation is delivered to a tumor by injecting a radioactive biopolymer directly to the site. 

Junjie Yao demonstrates proteins that emit longer wavelengths of near-infrared light to help create detailed, hi-res biomedical images.

BME Professor Amanda Randles joins a conversation about answering important questions in biology and medicine with leadership class supercomputers.

BME Professor Jessilyn Dunn comments on a health technology startup called HumanFirst that is changing the way clinical trials are run by putting people at the center of drug development.

BME Professor Nimmi Ramanujam, the recipient of the highest award for outstanding contributions to biomedical engineering, shares her thoughts on the field and her research.

Researchers looking to use wearable devices to improve health, such as BME Professor Jessilyn Dunn, are now worried that tracking women's data might do more harm than good now that Roe is no longer the law of the land.

BME Professor Charlie Gersbach talks about how editing the epigenome might be an even more exciting prospect than editing DNA with CRISPR-based tools.

Specialized cells developed in a laboratory by BME Professor Samira Musah shows that COVID-19 can directly infect and damage kidney cells.