Globally, and especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a significant portion of the population lacks access to essential health care services. Although there are many contributing ...

Our luck has run out. The worst pandemic in a century has killed over 3.7 million people globally. In the United States, almost 600,000 have lost their lives to COVID-19. Societies around the world ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to grow specialized blood vessel cells critical to retinal health for the first time. When injected into mouse ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Advances in cancer treatment and detection, ways to remove harmful chemicals in groundwater and other scientific projects could be closer than ever to large-scale implementation as part of a new ...

A few hours after sunset one night in July of 2016, a Ph.D. student walked into a New Jersey hotel carrying a bouquet of butterfly nets. The travelers who usually occupy the place looked up from their ...

The Gratzl/Biomedical Sensing Laboratory is housed in the Wickenden Building (Department of Biomedical Engineering, CWRU). It includes five adjacent laboratory rooms. One of them has lab benches ...