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Sung Hoon Kang focuses his research on how nature—plants, animals, the human body—can provide inspiration for engineering breakthroughs. Through a four-year, roughly $600,000 Air Force grant, he is studying how the lightweight, adaptable, irregular structure of bird bones could provide a blueprint for more efficient and resilient aerospace and automotive materials.

Johns Hopkins mechanical engineers have developed an algorithm that “listens” to heart sound recordings and detects heart disease with an accuracy that is similar to that of expert cardiologists.

Developed by Ishan Barman's lab, the non-invasive technique using an optical probe provides early signs of how a tumor is responding to treatment.

A Johns Hopkins University-led team has created an inexpensive portable device and cellphone app to diagnose gonorrhea in less than 15 minutes and determine if a particular strain will respond to frontline antibiotics.

When completed, the system will test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in as few as 10 minutes and can be performed in healthcare facilities or the workplace.

In the March issue of Biomaterials, Johns Hopkins researchers share promising findings on the underlying mechanisms by which breast cancer cells turn healthy cells into CAFs during early stages of breast cancer.