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How can smart contact lenses monitor and treat eye conditions?

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At Purdue University , Dr Chi Hwan Lee is using his skills as a biomedical engineer to develop smart contact lenses that can both monitor the condition and deliver drugs to combat it. TALK LIKE A BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER. Wearable sensors can be tailored to monitor a range of physical (e.g., 202108021.

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Can we engineer bacteria to regenerate tissues?

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Can we engineer bacteria to regenerate tissues? Published: Dr Christopher Contag , a biomedical engineer and microbiologist at Michigan State University in the US, is creating engineered endosymbionts – bacterial cells that can be delivered into cells of other organisms where they can persist and control cellular functions.

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From Aviation to Biomedical: Get Our August STEM Calendar for Daily Inspiration

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Raleigh, North Carolina USA 8/2/2024 STEM For Kids is excited to announce the release of the August STEM Calendar, a unique educational resource designed to highlight significant historic events in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

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Building and training human tendons in the lab

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This involves the creation of ‘bioreactors’, which attempt to provide the same chemical and physical properties as the tissue site in the body. PROFESSOR PIERRE-ALEXIS MOUTHUY Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, UK. Field of research: Bioengineering.

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

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It is likely you can answer yes to both questions because biomedical science is booming – and for good reason. Now, you can see the field is thriving after the pandemic,” says Professor Dayong Jin, Director of the Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

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Science Like A Girl – Inventor and Author Arlyne Simon

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Her years as a keen observer have taken her from biomedical engineer to inventor to entrepreneur to author, and she is keeping her eyes and mind open for whatever might come next. She liked science, but didn’t picture herself wearing hard hats as a civil engineer like her father. Image Credit : Arlyne Simon.

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Using adsorbents to help society

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“Such a model will be an important engineering design tool to advance work in drug delivery, power production, energy storage, atmospheric water harvesting and carbon capture technologies,” says Yamil. Choose a university degree such as chemical engineering, chemistry, biomolecular engineering, biochemistry or biomedical engineering.