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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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The Future of Health Technology

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Biomedical engineering, or BME, a topic that combines engineering and health sciences to advance medical technology, has only recently emerged as its own field of study. In order to complete these advances, biomedical engineers work with math, science, and medicine.

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Why This College Student Created a Coloring Book to Celebrate Black Women in STEM

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Especially for youngsters diving headlong into computer programming with an organization like Black Girls Code. The idea came to Asemota, who is in her final semester as a biomolecular science major with a computer science minor, during the doldrums of pandemic lockdown isolation in 2020. That’s sort of how I had it mapped out.

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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer

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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer. Published: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) link the brain directly to external computers, allowing users to do something just by thinking it. TALK LIKE A … COMPUTER SCIENTIST. Brains and computers share lots of similarities. How do BCIs work?

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Using adsorbents to help society

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Adsorption is a common process in our everyday lives,” says Dr Yamil Colón, based at the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering. Scientists use molecular models, also known as molecular simulations, to analyse how molecules work and fit together and learn more about their functions, processes and pathways. “We

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A Look Into Biotechnology

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Many who aim to pursue biotechnology as a potential career earn a degree in a related scientific subject such as biology, biochemistry, microbiology, and more. This process often leads to a master’s degree or Ph.D. in biotechnology, but professional work experience is beneficial as well.

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How can we detect and prevent brain injuries?

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Published: Inside your skull sits your brain, an incredible computer that controls everything you do. Professor Christian Franck, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is working on a programme that he hopes will improve the prevention and detection of TBIs.

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