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Ayanna Howard grew up wanting to be the Bionic Woman. Now, she designs robots that can teach, encourage and rehabilitate humans.
Hugh Herr lost both his legs in a climbing accident as a young man. He later turned this tragedy into an amazing career designing bionic limbs that provide greater mobility to amputees.
When diagnosed with heart disease, James Garrett chose a ground-breaking procedure called TAVR his faulty heart valve without invasive open-heart surgery. Now he volunteers his medical skills in places like Ghana.
Bob Langer, a world leader in biotechnology, creates drug delivery systems at the nanoscale, including for the mRNA vaccine for Covid-19.
Stefani Spranger introduces a new treatment that uses our own immune system to fight different forms of cancer.
Jagesh Shah works with a revolutionary tool that edits the DNA in our cells to eventually cure genetic diseases.
Hugh Herr turned a tragedy that he experienced as a teenager into an amazing career in bionics.
Arturo Vegas uses chemistry at the molecular level to create targeted therapies for diseases.
Regina Barzilay and Ava Amini employ AI to teach machines how to diagnose and predict diseases, and to use data to help find cures.
From Brooklyn, NY, Colin Stultz rose from poverty to lead the Computational Cardiovascular Research Group that develops machine learning tools to help patients survive cardiovascular disease.
Rejita Menon builds mathematical models to try to predict how bacteria can be used to make medicines.
Working where technology and biology meet, James Collins engineers living cells and uses machine learning to advance the world of antibiotics.
Alex Shalek studies human body cell types and how they’re affected by various diseases in order to develop interventions and better treatment plans.
Shikha Anand works in health technology designing devices that help us gather data that will guide our decisions about our health.
Gilda Barabino uses chemical engineering to solve problems in medicine while stressing the importance of diversity and inclusion in the medical field.
Christopher Chen, Mehmet Toner and Ellen Roche are studying new ways to fabricate human organs using 3D printing, microfabrication and other engineering techniques.
An overview of what sensory science is and why the scientific study of human taste, smell and other senses is so important.
Scientists are studying how smell and taste might be used as early indicators of diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.
Scientists are using taste receptive biology to look for compounds that will block our bitter receptors, which will make things like medicines taste better.
Scientists are developing a system to track and recreate specific smells to ultimately map human olfaction and identify the neurons used in detecting smell.
A simple way to demonstrate how smell and taste are connected is the Jelly Bean test.
Scientists describe the phenomena of mouth feel and a third dimension to taste called chemical irritation, which allows us to perceive sensations like the carbonation of a beverage, the cool aspect of mint, the spiciness of chiles.
The study of sensory nutrition focuses on how the chemical senses of taste, smell and chemical irritation affect our dietary choices and ultimately our health.
Scientists are studying the neural control of feeding behavior and the signals our body sends to our brain when processing and thinking about food.
What happens when we lose our sense of smell? Scientists look to identify olfactory disorders and ways to restore a sense of smell.