Durham's research powerhouse, pairing a world-class academic medical centre with strengths from quantum computing to climate science and lemur biology.
Amy Gladfelter's Duke laboratory studies how fungi adapt, stress and turn pathogenic, and finds principles that echo in human neurons, cancer cells and the placenta.
A new NSF-funded Center for Genome Intelligence Engineering will probe how the genome's physical shape governs cell identity, with Duke supplying engineered heart and brain tissue models.
The Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation enters a second five-year phase, shifting towards scalable quantum simulation engineering with Harvard joining the collaboration.
Micro-CT scans of living and extinct primate skulls, many from the Duke Lemur Center's fossil collection, challenge the idea that the frontal lobe powered primate brain growth.
Nicholas School climate scientists find that winter bursts of atmospheric river activity precede peak marine heatwaves in the North Pacific and North Atlantic, with two opposing mechanisms at work.
Duke metabolism researcher Jonathan Campbell argues that glucagon, long typecast as a blood-sugar-raising hormone, may explain why triple-action weight-loss drugs such as retatrutide work so well.
The Duke biomedical engineer whose signal-processing breakthrough clarified sound for cochlear implant users shares the Broad Institute's prize honouring technologies that transformed human health.
Ashutosh Chilkoti's Duke lab shows that elastin-like polypeptides can shepherd GLP-1 drugs through the stomach, matching injected performance in mice even on a high-calorie diet.
A Duke study in Nature Health finds daylight saving transitions do not change how much people move overall, but they redistribute activity across the day in ways that differ between groups.
A head-to-head trial of linaclotide versus the standard treatment PEG-3350 will enrol 320 autistic children across 30 sites, with the Duke Clinical Research Institute coordinating.
Duke researchers show that cells brushed from the upper nose carry gene-activity signatures separating early Alzheimer's from healthy ageing with about 81 per cent accuracy.
Tracking more than 1,000 North Carolinians aged 71 and older over a decade, Duke researchers found that lower levels of circulating piRNAs were linked to longer survival.
Duke mechanical engineers report building blocks whose internal metal cells melt and refreeze on electrical command, letting a robotic fish change its swimming with the same motor.
The 1,000-patient PACBACK trial in JAMA, with Duke authors, found supported self-management modestly reduced disability over a year, while spinal manipulation alone did not beat standard care.
A Duke study in Anesthesiology finds the number of preoperative stressors, not their intensity, predicts delirium, pain and longer hospital stays after major surgery in over-65s.
Duke's Aravind Asokan, an architect of adeno-associated viral vectors for gene therapy, and Adam Wax, an innovator in medical imaging and optics, join the NAI's 2025 class of fellows.
A Duke Health-led trial in North Carolina and Virginia launches autonomous drones carrying AEDs the moment a cardiac arrest call comes in, aiming to beat the ambulance to the scene.
A Nicholas Institute report synthesising 13 studies across plastic's full life cycle puts its annual social cost to the United States at between $436 billion and $1.1 trillion.