Younan Xia was elected to the 2026 Class of the National Academy of Engineering, one of the engineering profession’s highest ...

Younan Xia has joined Johns Hopkins University as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

Johns Hopkins researchers are building a high-speed imaging system to capture brain signals 50 times faster than current tools—revealing the "hidden" neural processes that drive neurological disorders ...

Dr. Younan Xia is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, with equally-split appointments in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of ...

Imagine if after a serious accident, your damaged facial bones could be replaced with tissue made by your own cells. Or if you could pop a pill that could reprogram your immune system to fight a ...

The wound was deep. At least 4 inches. And the surgical opening was at least that wide. Three Johns Hopkins engineering students, clad in green scrubs, huddled around the patient. They quietly ...

Amputees often experience the sensation of a “phantom limb”—a feeling that a missing body part is still there. That sensory illusion is closer to becoming a reality thanks to a team of engineers at ...

In the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, opioid-related deaths cut the nation’s average life expectancy at birth by eight months, according to new research appearing in The Lancet Regional ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have grown a novel whole-brain organoid, complete with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels—an advance that could usher in a new era of research into ...

Take a look back at Design Day 2025 with this photo gallery.

A team of Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering undergraduates took home a $15,000 prize at the National Institutes of Health’s 2023 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge, which ...

A new AI model is much better than doctors at identifying patients likely to experience cardiac arrest. The linchpin is the system’s ability to analyze long-underused heart imaging, alongside a full ...