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Biomedical engineering is entering a period of extraordinary scientific opportunity—and equally extraordinary educational pressure. At the 2025 Annual Conference of ...

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A previously underappreciated protein in the cells lining blood vessels may hold the key to how the brain builds and ...

A reaction long regarded as one of synthetic chemistry’s most stubborn challenges has moved closer to practical use. In a ...