University of North Carolina and at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University offer a joint biomedical engineering program that is fairly young and was established in 2003.
The program offers MS and PhD degrees. It has a 3.3 minimum undergraduate GPA requirement, strong GRE score, and 3 recommendation letters for the admission application.
To learn more about their program and even find them o twitter click here.
Virginia Tech offers a degree in biomedical engineering in a joint program with Wake Forest University. They offer masters and PhD programs with opportunities for undergraduates to get involved. Virginia Tech is mainly an Engineering school and Wake Forest has a strong Medicine school. Combining these has created a powerful biomedical engineering program.
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Researchers at Duke University biomedical engineering department have developed a laboratory robot that can locate the earliest traces of a mass in simulated breast tissue and reach that mass with a biopsy needle.
The robot can move in three axis right now. Their next goal is developing a robot that can move in 6 axis.
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Breast biopsy is a surgical procedure which all or part of lump is removed and tested for maligancy.
U.S News publishes rankings for universities and their different programs. Following are the top 10 ranked biomedical engineering schools:
Johns HopkinsYou can read more about the rankings here.
Currently surgeons have to operate multiple times for removing breast cancer tumors about 40% of the time. Researchers at Duke University have invented a unique optical imaging technique that enables surgeons to review tumor-margin status during surgery and reduce the current re-surgery rates.
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Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique using spun-sugar filaments to create a scaffold of tiny synthetic tubes that might serve as conduits to regenerate nerves severed in accidents or blood vessels damaged by disease.
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