The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart, a device currently undergoing clinical trials, was used in August to keep Donavan Harbison, a resident of Graham, N.C., alive for 10 days while he awaited a heart transplant at Duke University Hospital.
The project — in collaboration with Erasmus University in the Netherlands — is supported by a recent $7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under the Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers contract.
The new Master’s Entry to the Practice of Nursing program is a 16-month pre-licensure program that will prepare students to successfully take the National Council Licensure Examination for registered nurses.
The conference, titled Building a Global Mental Health Community: Research, Policy and Practice Across Disciplines, featured panel discussions, research symposia and a poster session with experts from various disciplines.
The week featured over 600 events across New York City and engaged hundreds of leaders in business, government and academia, as well as members of the general public.
Duke researchers published a study last month analyzing the potential relationship between reported cases of skin cancers in tattooed skin over time, which opened up opportunities for future research to improve patient health outcomes.
Duke’s biomedical engineering department announced the creation of a new Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation that aims to increase student involvement in research to “revolutioniz[e] health care."
The study, conducted in the Sheng-Yang He Lab in the Biology Department and published in Nature Plants Sept. 6, identifies that certain genes code for the composition of a plant’s microbiome and that if these genes are modified, the plant can become unhealthy.
Once completed, the quantum computer could be the first with the ability to outperform classical computers in areas of scientific application.
The event, hosted by student group Sustainable Oceans Alliance in Penn Pavilion, consisted of a student poster session, an alumni panel and a keynote speaker event with Sylvia Earle, Graduate School ‘56 and ‘66.
ERPOs — also known as red flag laws — are civil court orders established in 21 states and Washington, D.C., that temporarily restrict access to guns for individuals at risk of harming themselves or others.
The drug, resmetirom, is a novel treatment for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a common nonalcoholic liver disease linked to obesity.
The study, conducted in the Gladfelter Lab in the Duke School of Medicine, takes advantage of the structural flexibility of intrinsically disordered proteins, explaining a possible mechanism of resilience to disease and climate-change-induced temperature change.
The “historic” program will fund the “hiring and start-up costs” for a senior “luminary” faculty member and four to seven mid-career faculty over the next five years.
As extreme heat events plague communities across the nation, some government officials and Duke researchers are taking steps to help North Carolinians beat the heat.
A Duke rheumatology and immunology expert was part of a team who discovered a potential treatment for Sjӧgren’s disease, an autoimmune disorder also associated with a type of blood cancer.
Rising erosion rates present a serious problem for North Carolina. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Climate Resilience Toolkit suggests an average coastline recession rate of 25 feet per year on some barrier islands in the Southeast. With nearly 30% of the U.S. population living in coastline counties as of 2017, even losses of just one to two feet can be devastating.
A team of mechanical engineers has created a new diagnostic platform that can be used to detect various cancers and other serious medical conditions with greater efficiency.
To explore how stem cells decide to divide into copies of themselves or make new cells, the group researched the expression of stem cells in plants by developing a specialized microscope that takes precise photographs through a technique called light sheet microscopy.
The report, titled “Novel Lactation Induction Protocol for a Transgender Woman Wishing to Breastfeed: A Case Report,” is the fifth report ever published on lactation in a transgender woman, but is the only one that used metoclopramide for lactation induction.
