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Learn how federal funding helped Duke Engineering graduate and professor revolutionize a device that has restored hearing for millions.

A Bass Connections team including BME PhD student Sophia Vincoff works to engineer bacteria that can degrade plastics in the ocean.

Lingchong You's 2022 study is cited as one of the main reasons a kitchen sponge is so good at harboring a wide diversity and large density of bacteria.

Ashutosh Chilkoti was recognized by the Society for Biomaterials for his pioneering work in protein-resistant polymer coatings and protein biomaterials

Researchers find a master epigenetic switch that activates silenced genes to compensate for their missing counterparts in a rare genetic disease called Prader-Willi syndrome

Synthetic biological compartments trap together cellular machinery to increase their rate of protein production

One small slit could make rapid and detailed imaging tools more accessible for labs and hospitals

Pranam Chatterjee uses generative AI to create thousands of new potential therapeutic peptides and match them to "undruggable" biomolecular targets

The organization recognized Yao for his pioneering work to advance photoacoustic imaging technologies

Associated $250,000 prize will support Randles's work to build "digital twins" for the human vasculature to improve heart-related health outcomes

Cameron McIntyre’s research allows doctors to see a patient’s brain in three dimensions. Using this hologram, neurosurgeons can perform complex surgeries to alleviate the tremors associated with Parkinson’s disorder and epilepsy.

A new platform can design and match small peptides with complex, tangled proteins previously considered unreachable