Randolph Nesse, MD, is a research professor of life sciences at Arizona State University. For more about evolutionary medicine, see the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health.

Modern medicine increasingly relies on technology not just to treat illness but to understand the human body in real time. Nowhere is that shift more profound than in patient monitoring and anesthesia ...

Regenerative medicine combines tissue engineering and cell therapies to repair or replace damaged human tissues and organs. Key applications include treating osteoarthritis with mesenchymal stem cells ...

Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change how we prevent disease, age, and define human potential. The same tools ...

Cardiovascular Reparative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (CRMTE) aims to develop future technologies and therapeutic strategies that will serve as treatment for cardiovascular disease. CRMTE includes ...

Researchers from Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine have developed a strategy for optimizing vaccination rollouts. The Jan. 22 report identified the challenges of distributing vaccines among different ...

These fields aim to facilitate healing and restore lost function in damaged or diseased tissues and organs by integrating scaffolds, cells, and biological signaling molecules. This combination aims to ...

The body's natural filters, such as the kidney and lungs, are designed to protect the body from foreign materials. But they also filter out large percentages of critical drugs such as chemotherapy.

A new master’s program in Personalized Medicine and Applied Engineering will seek to provide students with the “hard skills” necessary to work in the medical device design industry. The year-long ...

New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is a cohort-based leadership program that promotes collaboration among outstanding mid-career scientists, engineers, and medical professionals during ...

Sierra Sparks, Dalhousie’s 92nd Rhodes Scholar, graduated from Oxford University in 2025 and is now in her first year of ...