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A new device roughly the size of a penny uses sound waves to gently separate circulating tumor cells from biological fluids   Using sound waves, researchers have developed a gentle, contact-free method for separating circulating tumor cells from blood samples that is fast and efficient enough for clinical use.

Pointed spires, vigilant gargoyles and gothic towers rise above the trees in the woods of Durham. This is Duke University: a 90-year-young institution built from 400-million-year-old North Carolina stone. In this video, we invite you to experience our campus from a new point of view. [Video:https://youtu.be/jV-fcCk5R8Y]

  One year after joining the Project Baseline study, the first participants enrolled by the Duke University School of Medicine celebrated their study anniversary by reflecting on the journey so far and sharing their hopes for the years to come.

A genetically modified poliovirus therapy developed at Duke Cancer Institute shows significantly improved long-term survival for patients with recurrent glioblastoma, with a three-year survival rate of 21 percent in a phase 1 clinical trial. Comparatively, just 4 percent of patients at Duke with the same type of recurring brain tumors were alive at three years when undergoing the previously available standard treatment.  

Presented by Mary E. Klotman, MD, Dean, Duke University School of Medicine Part 1 [video:https://youtu.be/uNVbTY1guNM] Part 2 [video:https://youtu.be/3_fdHfc10mQ]

  Slides and video are now available from the first two presentations in a new Duke-wide town hall series relevant to research – from grant applications to research management, and everything in between.

  Despite significant medical advances since 1968, Robert F. Kennedy’s gunshot wound to the head would still have been fatal if it had happened today, according to Duke researchers.

The second entry in our “Neurology and Men’s Health” series focuses on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. While both men and women can develop this devastating condition, men are more likely to develop ALS, and generally get it at a younger age. Rick Bedlack, MD, PhD, talks to us about the gender differences in ALS, how multidisciplinary programs like the Duke ALS Clinic can make a difference for people with ALS, and how our knowledge of ALS has advanced over the past 20 years.

Registration now open for SOM Faculty Registration will open to all others on June 25   This widely acclaimed seminar series is based on the concept that in order to improve writing, it is first necessary to understand the process of reading.  Presented by: George D. Gopen, JD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Rhetoric, Department of English When/Where: