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Know When to Fold ’Em: Hopkins Engineers Develop New Technique to Diagnose Cancer Metastasis
CategoriesTeam led by Ishan Barman uses DNA origami nanoprobes to detect aggressive tumors via Raman spectroscopy
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Shoebox-sized device promises earlier esophageal cancer detection in low-resource areas
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“A Fish Out of Water,” featuring team’s mudskipper and robotics research, now streaming
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Once a day, Divya Ramesh and her colleagues drop fish food into the aquariums in their lab, feeding a menagerie of three unusual species: the ropefish, bichir, and mudskipper. All…
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Hopkins engineers are working on a system to diagnose whether a person has malaria using near-infrared light.
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Researchers say the sensor combines accuracy levels approaching that of PCR testing with the speed of rapid antigen tests, and could be used for mass testing at airports, schools, and hospitals.
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Avian-inspired engineering
CategoriesSung 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.