Study finds partial heart transplant series in pediatric patients resulted in valves that worked across different diagnoses and grew over time, matching the child’s development

Dan Ma, PhD, is transforming medical imaging with MR fingerprinting — a technique that captures the body’s inner landscape in a single scan. By varying magnetic signals, it creates unique tissue “fingerprints” and generates detailed maps that reveal what traditional MRI often misses — from hidden brain lesions to early-stage cancer. Ma’s work is unlocking a new era of imaging where every scan tells a deeper, more accurate story.

A newly discovered “neurobiotic sense” reveals how gut cells listen to microbial chatter and signal the brain to influence hunger, cravings, and behavior. 

A Duke Health team led by Joseph Turek, MD, PhD, performed the world's first on-table heart reanimation for infant transplant, an advance that could dramatically expand the donor pool for pediatric heart transplants.

The 230-acre campus will include a 500-bed children’s hospital, a children’s outpatient care center, 103 children and adolescent behavioral health beds, and a research and education enterprise backed by the UNC and Duke schools of medicine.

A team from the Duke Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery has performed the first robotic bilateral lung transplant in the Southeast, and one of the first in the U.S. Duke is one of only a handful of centers in the nation performing fully robotic lung transplants.

The Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis combines advanced imaging and high-dose stereotactic radiosurgery to treat some of the most complex cases, and they're changing who has access to that care.

Scientists at Duke University School of Medicine are developing a new CAR-T cell therapy that could finally help immunotherapy take aim at solid tumors. Early tests look promising, and it started with one patient’s immune system doing something extraordinary.

The new facility will add hospital services to the existing Duke Health Cary location, including an emergency room, surgical services, imaging, cancer treatments, and other care.