Healthy Society News

Nenad Bursac is growing beating human heart tissue in his lab to test emerging heart repair treatments such as gene therapy.

Bursts of electrical stimulation could help restore gut motion to treat constipation, a technique recently licensed by industry leader Boston Scientific

Smartwatches and fitness trackers are becoming useful clinical health tools, and privacy considerations are key

Several interdisciplinary projects are using virtual and augmented reality to push the frontiers of physical and mental therapies.

Certificates in neural engineering and biomedical data science help Master of Science students pursue specialized research as they earn their degree

Say the word “microbe” and many people reflexively reach for a bottle of disinfectant. But where most see an adversary to be destroyed posthaste, Claudia Gunsch has always seen potential. She believes that microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms thriving all around us — can be engineered to serve both environmental and human health.

A tale of two Duke CEE researchers working to identify and obliterate the “forever chemicals” tainting North Carolina’s drinking water.

Discover how IoT is making technology more accessible, as Duke researchers develop low-cost sensor networks for real-world challenges like disaster detection.

Enabling the visionary future of the Metaverse requires research projects of many levels, ranging from AI-accelerating hardware to localized computing networks that can tackle complex software in the blink of an eye.