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By chasing cockroaches through an obstacle course and studying their movements, the Johns Hopkins engineers discovered that animals' movement transitions corresponded to overcoming potential energy barriers and that they can jitter around to traverse obstacles in complex terrain.

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.

Sung Hoon Kang and team developed the prototype in response to the urgent need for more ventilators to treat patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by COVID-19

A new paper by Johns Hopkins University researchers was recently published in the journal eLife, offering new insights into how sensory feedback plays an essential role in animal movement.

Using microfluidic technologies, Soojung Claire Hur and co-investigator Thomas Pisanic are aiming to develop a microfluidic primary cell editing platform (pCEP) for personal gene therapy with a new award from the National Institutes of Health.

Our latest video features the research of Sung Hoon Kang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Kang is developing 3D-printed cardiovascular implants that can change shape to…

Like cars, cells need to metabolize energy to move- - but how much energy they consume to generate movement has never been studied in detail because measuring the metabolic activity of a single cell is extremely difficult to accomplish. In a paper published in PNAS, Professor Sean Sun and team explore the underlying mechanisms of cell movement.

Most of the approximately 42,000 Americans who die from breast cancer each year perish because the disease has become metastatic, or has spread from its original site to the patient’s…

Award will support study of complex mechanisms of living organisms.

Sean Sun, professor, and Mohammad Ikbal Choudhury, PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have co-authored a recent study published in Nature on May 8, 2019.

The findings can aid in the creation of asteroid impact and deflection strategies, increase understanding of solar system formation and help design asteroid mining efforts.

Ishan Barman directs a beam of photons to image breast cancer (Image: Will Kirk / Homewood Photography)