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| Duke Engineering

“Virtual Pillars” Separate and Sort Blood-Based Nanoparticles

Sorting biological nanoparticles 500 times thinner than a human hair could improve a wide variety of diagnostics and treatments

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| Duke Engineering

Microlaser Chip Adds New Dimensions to Quantum Communication

Duke engineers help a team led by Penn double the quantum information space of any previous on-chip laser

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| Duke Engineering Magazine

Detecting How COVID-19 Can Directly Infect and Damage Human Kidney Cells

A fortuitous collaboration between Duke BME’s Samira Musah and the Duke Human Vaccine Institute’s Maria Blasi helps illuminate why the virus is so adept at attacking kidney cells

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| Duke Engineering

Light Painting Presents a New Route for Expression

A photography workshop at Duke Engineering showed the community how to combine quirky light sources and long exposures to achieve otherworldly effects

Cynthia Toth of Duke University

| Duke University School of Medicine

An Engineer at Heart: Cynthia Toth's 25 years of revolutionizing eye care and surgery

When Toth joined the Duke faculty in 1993, she found the perfect setting to develop OCT to improve patient care.

A watch showing the heart rate

| Duke Engineering

Smartwatches Can Help Guide COVID-19 Testing

Data from smartwatches can help identify people with likely COVID-19 infections, enabling physicians to catch more cases with fewer tests

Adrienne Stiff-Roberts. Photo by Jared Lazarus.

| Duke Today

Adrienne Stiff-Roberts Named Presidential Fellow for 2022-23 Academic Year

The Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor of Electrical Computer Engineering at Duke will participate in strategic and operational discussions across the university

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| Duke Engineering

Nanorattles Shake Up New Possibilities for Disease Detection

New nanoparticle shape can greatly enhance signals from multiple separate biomarkers at once, accurately detecting head and neck cancers without biopsies

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| Duke Engineering

Microbial Communities Stay Healthy By Swapping Knowledge

High levels of horizontal gene transfer could help researchers engineer useful microbiomes independent of unstable population dynamics

Scientific images of a gigantic jet

| Georgia Tech

Duke's Steve Cummer is Studying the Gigantic Jet Phenomenon

The gigantic jet in the study carried 100 times as much electrical charge as a typical bolt of thunderstorm lightning.

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| Duke Today

Meet the Winners of the 2022 DST Launch Seed Grant

Grants winners represent the strength of Duke's scientific research and potential for making significant contributions to region and nation.

Michael Troxel (left) and Dan Scolnic (right)

| Duke Goverment Relations

5 Questions for Duke’s 'Super Star' Cosmologists

Michael Troxel and Dan Scolnic Discuss Their Research and the First Captures from the James Webb Space Telescope

Ehsan Samei and Daniele Marin

| Duke Radiology News

Photon Counting Imaging at Duke

Ehsan Samei and Daniele Marin are co-principal investigators of a research prototype of photon-counting computed tomography

| Duke Engineering

Watching Primordial Neural Cells Grow in 3D Scaffolds to Heal Brain Injury

Tracking how neural progenitor cells respond to biochemical signals while moving and growing through a biocompatible jungle gym could help develop brain-healing

| Duke Engineering

Upside-Down Design Expands Wide-Spectrum Super-Camera Abilities

New design for plasmonic metasurfaces increases their frequency range while protecting them from the elements