By: Jaimie Patterson

Several pill containers and loose pills lay on a pink tabletop.

New method aims to optimize HIV treatments, improve quality of life

A Johns Hopkins team develops a way to personalize antiretroviral therapy to reduce side effects.

Diagram of an eye receiving photoacoustic retinal stimulation via an epiretinal implant. Red arrows represent a laser pulse hitting the implant, which generates blue acoustic waves depicted as wavy lines that stimulate the underlying retinal cells.

New nanomaterial for retinal implants could someday help restore sight for millions

Emad Boctor and Seth Billings's approach converts light into sound, activating damaged eye cells.

A close-up photo of a doctor taking notes on a clip board.

In others’ words: Using large language models to accurately analyze doctors’ notes and improve the reliability of real-world AI applications

Johns Hopkins and Columbia University computer scientists teamed up to combat the inaccurate correlations that artificial intelligence and machine learning models learn from text data.

A person tests out the da Vinci Research Kit.

Could an electric nudge to the head help your doctor operate a surgical robot?

A Johns Hopkins study finds stimulating people’s brains with gentle electric currents can boost learning.

Headshot of Bisi Bell.

Optica elects Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell as 2024 Fellow for innovations in photoacoustic imaging

The award acknowledges her pioneering contributions to photoacoustic imaging techniques and their applications for surgical guidance.

The Circlage dashboard on a MacBook Pro laptop screen.

AI, the new surgical mentor

A collaboration with researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Circlage is a cloud-based surgical video analysis platform designed to standardize, critique, and train surgeons on designated procedures.