Up to 22% of soccer injuries are concussions that can result from players using their heads to direct the ball during a game. To reduce risk of injury, a new study by Purdue ME/BME’s Eric Nauman recommends preventing how hard a ball hits the head by inflating balls to lower pressures and subbing them out when they get wet.

A Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering associate professor has won a $400,000 prize for his development of a new mobile health (mHealth) application that analyzes microvascular and blood hemoglobin information by using a smartphone photo of a patient’s inner eyelid.

Purdue mechanical engineers built a ‘time machine,’ or microfluidic pancreatic tumor device, that simulates tumor growth over time.

Purdue engineers used some architectural features from spider webs to develop the technology. Spider webs typically provide excellent mechanical adaptability and damage-tolerance against various mechanical loads such as storms.

A rectangular robot as tiny as a few human hairs can travel throughout a colon by doing back flips to transport drugs in humans, Purdue University engineers have demonstrated in live animal models.

A couple of years ago, I was sitting next to an engineer-farmer who raises beef cattle. He mentioned the challenge of bovine respiratory disease, and how it is difficult to determine what therapy is appropriate because there is a lack of information on which pathogen is causing the disease. Oftentimes, antibiotics fail, and the treatment proceeds by trial and error.

Purdue researchers from diverse disciplines worked together to develop a new material that may help scientists learn more about neurological disorders.

Purdue biomedical engineering researchers are developing an app and wearable technology that will allow pregnant women to use a smartphone to detect whether they have or are susceptible to a preeclampsia, a complication caused by high blood pressure that can cause organ damage and premature birth.

The Purdue College of Engineering named its 2020-2021 Engineering Fellows during a recent virtual event. Thanks to the generosity of benefactors Robert H. Buckman (BSChE ’59) and his wife, Joyce A. Mollerup, five students each will receive a $10,000 gift upon graduation in 2021. Students are free to use the funds in any endeavor they see fit.

Purdue University researchers are helping to develop physIQ software that could indicate that a person should get tested for COVID-19 by detecting specific changes in heart and breathing rates while the person wears a smartwatch.