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Emily Wenger comments on the potential pitfalls associated with hiring a company to collect and use data for security purposes without strong guardrails in place.

BME Professor Charlie Gersbach is one of several researchers worldwide interviewed for an article on using CRISPR to influence gene expression by editing the epigenome with the goal of treating disease.

Miroslav Pajic, Duke ECE professor, discusses how lidar can be compromised using malware, with serious consequences.

Sharon Gerecht and her laboratory have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to grow specialized blood vessel cells critical to retinal health for the first time.

Jessilyn Dunn weighs in on what it takes for data gathered by wearables like blood pressure to be actionable in clinical settings as apps begin connecting users to physicians.

Mark Borsuk and Duke's CIRCAD center are working with insurance industry partners to develop new insights, tools, and approaches that improve how individuals, organizations, and communities anticipate, manage, and recover from catastrophic events.

Xiaoyue Ni has unlocked robotic building blocks using electrically heated elements that turn solids to liquids, which allows the material to mimic a wide range of mechanical behaviors.

Professor Neil Gong and other scholars have been issuing warnings about the security vulnerabilities of AI agents for a while.

Amy Gladfelter describes her work studying "extreme cells" that break many of the rules of biology and may hold clues to pregnancy complications, certain diseases, and even cancer.

While Argus looks like a sea urchin, Boyuan Chen and his lab took cues from physics, not biology.

Hai "Helen" Li was elected a 2025 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

A robot being developed at Duke University is almost ready to face the world, in any direction.