In her final year as an undergraduate at USC, dancer Kaitlyn Kumar tore a ligament during a rehearsal for the ballet Sleeping Beauty — but powered through the pain to perform anyway, thanks to ample ...

Projects from Rama Chellappa, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering, and Joel Bader, professor of ...

Research Interests: Organoid tissue engineering, pluripotent stem cells, 3D tissue models, cerebral organoids, neurological disorder research (focusing on Autism, Schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's ...

Imagine if after a serious accident, your damaged facial bones could be replaced with tissue made by your own cells. Or if you could pop a pill that could reprogram your immune system to fight a ...

Amputees often experience the sensation of a “phantom limb”—a feeling that a missing body part is still there. That sensory illusion is closer to becoming a reality thanks to a team of engineers at ...

Students in the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering’s Design Team program have developed a new tool for improving the assessment of damaged nerves during surgery. The innovation is a ...

In the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, opioid-related deaths cut the nation’s average life expectancy at birth by eight months, according to new research appearing in The Lancet Regional ...

The wound was deep. At least 4 inches. And the surgical opening was at least that wide. Three Johns Hopkins engineering students, clad in green scrubs, huddled around the patient. They quietly ...

The Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering graduate programs have earned the No.1 ranking from U.S. News & World Report, marking more than 30 consecutive years at the top spot, according to the new 2024 ...

Returning to sports too soon after a concussion or other traumatic brain injury (TBI) can increase the risk of an even more serious injury and long-term brain damage. Johns Hopkins biomedical ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers are collaborating with NASA to send human heart “tissue-on-a-chip” specimens into space as early as March. The project is designed to monitor the tissue for changes ...

An estimated 80 million people around the world suffer from glaucoma, a group of chronic, progressive eye diseases caused by damage to the optic nerve often due to excessive fluid buildup in the eye.