Chameleons, salamanders and many toads use stored elastic energy to launch their sticky tongues at unsuspecting insects located up to one-and-a-half body lengths away, catching them within a tenth of a second.

Roughly 15% of premature births in the U.S. happen due to a pregnancy complication caused by high blood pressure, called preeclampsia. While sometimes symptoms dissipate after the mother gives birth, preeclampsia can lead to permanent damage to the kidneys or death.

Purdue University will create a sports engineering and research center named in honor of a record-setting Olympian and Purdue graduate.

George R. Wodicka was named the new Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) co-director representing the Purdue University campus. The Dane A. Miller Head and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue has been involved with the Indiana CTSI from its inception, but his new role brings opportunities to expand his impact, starting with plans for a new Biomedical Devices Clinical Research Laboratory that will shrink the gap between discovery and implementation of noninvasive medical devices.

Patented artificial intelligence from Purdue is being used to provide scientists with the insight needed to determine if current treatments truly help people with a chronic stomach disorder.

A postdoctoral neuroscience researcher in Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering has been selected into the Hanna Gray Fellowship of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Weeks of planning, tireless dedication and inspired collaboration between Purdue Athletics and the College of Engineering will come to fruition this Saturday for the Wheel Rise Event in Holloway Gymnasium. This inaugural event, organized to promote and raise awareness for Paralympic sports, will take place from 2-5 p.m. prior to the football game against TCU at 7:30 p.m. Leony Boudreau, a junior at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Purdue women's basketball team, has been spearheading the effort.

Young Kim, associate professor with the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, is helping to lay the groundwork for emerging global mobile health (mHealth) technologies. mHealth includes the use of mobile and wireless devices (cellphones, tablets, etc.) to improve point-of-care diagnosis, health outcomes, health care services and health research.

Hannah Cebull and Sarah Libring, graduate students at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, have received NSF Institute of International Education-Graduate International Research Experiences (IIE-GIRE) Scholarships. IIE-GIRE is a fellowship program that offers funding to doctoral engineering students to conduct innovative research abroad for three to five months and to expand ties between Purdue and the host institution. Cebull and Libring will conduct their fellowship research during the spring 2020 semester.

People with hand amputations experience difficult daily life challenges, often leading to lifelong use of a prosthetic hands and services. An electronic glove, or e-glove, developed by Purdue University researchers can be worn over a prosthetic hand to provide humanlike softness, warmth, appearance and sensory perception, such as the ability to sense pressure, temperature and hydration.