Approximately 1 in 6 individuals or couples face difficulties conceiving naturally, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)'s statistics. On the other hand, assisted fertility cycles with the support of genetic testing improve implantation and pregnancy rates by as much as 70%. Precision medicine, which integrates preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) into in vitro fertilization (IVF) offers the ultimate solution.

Timothy Allerton, PhD, is an assistant professor of vascular metabolism at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. He is a licensed clinical exercise physiologist. During his postdoctoral fellowship, also at Pennington Biomedical, Dr. Allerton developed a strong interest in the link between vascular function and metabolism. In May, several research data posters, presentations, and publications were evaluated by Pennington Biomedical faculty, with Dr. Allerton’s publication “Exercise Therapy Rescues Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction and Exercise Intolerance in Cardiometabolic HFpEF” selected as the Publication of the Year among those produced by peers and colleagues. 

Eric Nauman’s lab looks like the kind of place where engineering problems are unravelled and solved. Students work on novel biomedical and sports-related projects in every corner of the University of Cincinnati’s Human Injury Research and Regenerative Technologies Lab.

Construction scientists and engineers are learning lessons in space that can be applied for better construction here on the home planet.

Robotics experts gathered at Texas A&M University for the 22nd International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots to share groundbreaking research on robots in our everyday world.

In 2024, associate professor Todd Pierson received a three-year, $380,238 grant from the National Science Foundation through a program called Building Research Capacity in Biology (BRC-BIO). The program broadens research participation by undergraduates at Carnegie-designated R2 institutions like KSU. Pierson’s current research derives from this grant, and he said it’s a year-round commitment, from the students in the field recently to a team research class he’ll teach this fall that will involve the classroom, the lab, and the field.

In a bold step toward transforming how nuclear infrastructure is built, the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with Kairos Power and Barnard Construction, has successfully developed and validated large-scale, 3D-printed polymer composite forms for casting complex, high-precision concrete structures that would be technically challenging and costly to produce using conventional methods. 

Biomedical engineer Ashutosh Agarwal is collaborating with researchers at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and the Miller School of Medicine to develop a device crucial to their effort to complete a whole human eye transplant.