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More by Patricia Wiley

Biography of Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Ph.D., a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University engineers and builds tissues to improve health and cure disease.

A metamaterial made of plastic and copper may be able to enhance the quality (signal-to-noise ratio) of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by four times and speed up scan times by 14 times.

Painless skin patch collects fluid to monitor biomarkers to speed up and simplify routine diagnostic testing. 

Brain function can be tracked in real-time using a new MRI method that has the potential to shed light on altered neuronal activity in brain diseases.

A new deep learning technique constructs better macroscopic medical images of cells and tissues at ultra-fast speeds.

NIBIB-funded researchers use passive cavitation imaging, an ultrasound imaging technique, to create an image and estimate the amount of drug that crossed the blood-brain barrier to reach a specific location in the brain.

NIBIB-funded researchers have designed a new class of 2D nanomaterials that are disc-shaped and flat on the surface, to aid in treatments for cartilage repair.

NIBIB-funded researchers created a new 3D bioprinted tumor model in a laboratory dish to screen anticancer drugs and study the spread of cancer.

Nanogenerator’s electrical pulses provide beneficial outcomes with no side effects – rat study.

NIBIB-funded researchers have developed a 3D-printed scaffold coated in aggrecan, a native cartilage component, to improve the regeneration of cartilage tissue in joints.