Personal, Environmental & Population Health News

By creating a digital twin of your circulatory system, Duke BME's Amanda Randles wants to bring unprecedented precision to medical forecasts

A new grant awarded to a Duke-Cambridge team attacks the challenges of creating digital twins of geometrically complex systems

Muscles grown from stem cells taken from patients with limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2B (LGMD2B) respond positively to potential treatments

By precisely controlling the concentration of drugs, a new version of a drug delivery tool can better manipulate neuronal activity

A new ultrathin silk membrane for organ-on-a-chip platforms helps cells communicate and grow into functional tissues used for research

New platform separates biomarkers with a water droplet-based centrifuge that spins up to 6000 RPM, pushed only by sound waves

Bacterial colonies fail to reach their potential when cooperative growth creates opportunities for laziness

Study finds a smoking gun for the spread and evolution of antibiotic resistance

A CRISPR-based screening platform helped Charles Gersbach and colleagues identify a transcription factor that makes CAR T cells better at killing cancer cells.

The Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics is creating a new group focused on a quickly growing and evolving marriage of technologies

A common powerful mutation found in melanoma can push heart muscle cells to multiply in laboratory models of heart tissue

Adaptive form of deep brain stimulation with twice the number of electrodes improved the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in six patients