Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brain organoids are usually grown to mirror individual sections of the brain, and not the entire organ. Biomedical engineers have ...

New nanomaterial passes the blood-brain barrier to reduce damaging inflammation after the most common form of stroke. When ...

A Johns Hopkins University research team has developed an algorithm to non-invasively measure intracranial pressure (ICP) using vital sign data routinely checked in the ICU. The new method leverages ...

When a person suffers a stroke, physicians must restore blood flow to the brain as quickly as possible to save their life. But, ironically, that life-saving rush of blood can also trigger a second ...

For Cassandra Swacker, engineering is a way to help people. Majoring in mechanical engineering and minoring in biomedical engineering at Iowa State University equipped Swacker with the skills to ...

Last spring, CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley led viewers of the popular 60 Minutes program to a place where biomedical engineering pioneers are expanding the possibilities of human movement and ...

The human brain is complex. Understanding deep brain function usually requires the insertion of probes that frequently result ...

A newly developed imaging method blends ultrasound and photoacoustics to capture both tissue structure and blood-vessel function in 3D.

What if a virtual reality headset could help detect rare forms of autism? That question led six biomedical engineering seniors at UAB to design a groundbreaking diagnostic tool and win first place ...

Restoring blood flow after an ischemic stroke can trigger secondary brain injury, causing inflammation, neuronal death, and long-term disability that current treatments do not address. Researchers ...