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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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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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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.

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

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In an education landscape awash in technology, what impact could something as analog as a coloring book make? Especially for youngsters diving headlong into computer programming with an organization like Black Girls Code. How did you get involved with computer science and coding? That’s sort of how I had it mapped out.

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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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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. The identification of new adsorbents is critical to technological advancements in healthcare, climate change and water scarcity,” explains Yamil. How does the team do this research?

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Building and training human tendons in the lab

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Bioengineering — the application of engineering principles to the fields of medicine and biology. Tissue engineering is a promising strategy that aims to generate grafts for tendons and other tissues in vitro,” he says. It involves taking the principles of biology and the tools of. TALK LIKE A… BIOENGINEER.