Matt Arkenberg, a first-year doctoral student at Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, is developing novel biomaterials that could one day be used to promote survival of pancreatic islets ...

Modern medicine increasingly relies on technology not just to treat illness but to understand the human body in real time. Nowhere is that shift more profound than in patient monitoring and anesthesia ...

Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change how we prevent disease, age, and define human potential. The same tools ...

Researchers from Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine have developed a strategy for optimizing vaccination rollouts. The Jan. 22 report identified the challenges of distributing vaccines among different ...

These fields aim to facilitate healing and restore lost function in damaged or diseased tissues and organs by integrating scaffolds, cells, and biological signaling molecules. This combination aims to ...

Cardiovascular Reparative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (CRMTE) aims to develop future technologies and therapeutic strategies that will serve as treatment for cardiovascular disease. CRMTE includes ...

Randolph Nesse, MD, is a research professor of life sciences at Arizona State University. For more about evolutionary medicine, see the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health.

This activity was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and The National Institutes of Health (#10004234), the National Science Foundation (#10003816), and L’Oreal USA. Any ...

Biomedical engineering, or BME, majors use science and engineering techniques to find innovative solutions to issues in medicine and biology. Students learn about ethics and how to account for ...

Jeffrey W. Holmes has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the American Heart Association, and the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group. He ...