College athletes want to know when they can return to playing sports after a concussion. NIH-funded researchers have developed a new prognostic model.
Science Highlights · March 26, 2025
Science Highlights · March 21, 2025
Many cancer drugs fail to penetrate deep into tumors, but new research suggests magnetism could help pull them through.
NIBIB in the News · March 21, 2025
Experts see broader applications as evidence suggests AI in interventional radiology can improve patient outcomes. AI is a hot topic in IR, and rightly so. Source: Radiology Today
Science Highlights · March 20, 2025
Researchers are developing a preclinical method to stimulate the brain without drilling into the skull by guiding a catheter through the cerebrospinal fluid.
NIBIB in the News · March 20, 2025
A study led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego sheds new light on how a type of heart valve disease, called aortic valve stenosis, progresses differently in males and females. The research reveals that this sex-based difference can be traced to a gene on the Y chromosome. Source: MedicalXpress.com
NIBIB in the News · March 18, 2025
In recent years, scientists and engineers have looked to muscles as potential actuators for “biohybrid” robots — machines powered by soft, artificially grown muscle fibers. Now, MIT engineers with NIBIB funding have developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple coordinated directions. Source: MIT News
NIBIB in the News · March 18, 2025
A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University has discovered that bacteria can invade the brain after a medical device is implanted, contributing to inflammation and reducing the device’s long-term effectiveness.
Their groundbreaking research, recently published in Nature Communications, could improve the long-term success of brain implants now that a target has been identified to address. Source: Case Western Reserve University: The Daily.
NIBIB in the News · March 18, 2025
For decades, scientists have relied on electrodes and dyes to track the electrical activity of living cells. Now, engineers at the University of California San Diego with NIBIB funding have discovered that quantum materials just a single atom thick can do the job—using only light. Source: UC San Diego Today
NIBIB in the News · March 14, 2025
A team of researchers at the University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering have conducted a research project that's led to new technology that offers rapid, highly sensitive detection of multi-drug-resistant bacteria and other pathogens at low concentrations. Source: EurekAlert!