In this candid conversation, Dr. Mary E. Klotman, executive vice president for health affairs of Duke University, dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, and chief academic officer of Duke Health, sits down with Dr. David W. Zaas, chief executive officer of Duke University Health System, to talk about what's ahead.

The tool, called Raygun in a nod to science fiction, can create shorter, longer, and highly modified versions of proteins while preserving their structure and function. The findings, published in Nature, open new possibilities for protein engineering and drug development.

Missed mortgage payments? Drop in credit score? Researchers find new markers for suicide risk.

The teen years may be a critical window when the gut microbiome and its influence on weight is still taking shape and more open to change.

A new study suggests what’s flushed down the drain can offer a real-time snapshot of what communities are eating.  

When Max Bucklan opened an e-newsletter from the Duke Graduate School last March, his eyes landed on three words that “stopped me dead in my tracks,” he said. The three words? Biomedical video contest.  

Read the story on the Duke-NUS Medical School website.

For decades they advanced discoveries that changed medicine, trained future generations of physicians and scientists, cared for patients, and guided Duke University School of Medicine into a leadin

Study finds rapid weight loss before body contouring surgery may raise complication risk.

Read the full story on the Physician Assistant Program's news page.