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The National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx®) Tech program is working to identify necessary elements of at-home COVID-19 diagnostic test kits that may be used independently by people with disabilities.

This Associated Press interview with NIBIB Director Dr. Bruce Tromberg delves into COVID-19 infectiousness and COVID-19 antigen tests.

A newly designed wearable magnetic metamaterial, developed by NIBIB-funded researchers, could help make MRI scans crisper, faster, and cheaper.

This article describes self-test reporting mechanisms used in the CDC-NIH Say Yes! COVID Test program. The pilot demonstrates that it is possible to establish an efficient and scalable electronic pathway for self-test result reporting to public health authorities.

The University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering and College of Education have received a federal grant to continue a summer biomedical engineering program that has trained 27 Chicago Public Schools science teachers over the last five years. The five-year grant from NIBIB was awarded in January to continue funding the Biomedical Engineering Experience for Science Teachers program.

The NIH recently invested over $74 million over five years to support 19 DS-I Africa awards that will conduct research and training activities across the continent.

A robot has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without the guiding hand of a human—a significant step toward fully automated surgery on humans. Designed by a team of Johns Hopkins University researchers, the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, or STAR. Source: ed today in Science Robotics.

Siemens Healthineers AG will supply 50 million rapid Covid-19 test kits as part of President Joe Biden‘s push to deliver 1 billion free at-home tests to Americans, the Defense Department said.

Fluidigm, "the South San Francisco-based company, which landed NIH money in a Shark Tank-style program for Covid-19 testing, announced that it will take on an investment worth $250 million from Casdin Capital and Viking Global investors, ". The company "will also rebrand, and call itself Standard BioTools.