BIOENGINEERING
Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts.
Can we use our brains to directly control machines -- without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks...
Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living...
Todd Kuiken: A prosthetic arm that "feels"
Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system -- improving motion,...
Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness
Sheila Nirenberg studies how the brain encodes information -- possibly allowing us to decode it, and maybe develop prosthetic sensory...
Bonnie Bassler: How bacteria "talk"
Bonnie Bassler studies how bacteria can communicate with one another, through chemical signals, to act as a unit. Her work...
Biochip
Biochips are essentially miniaturized laboratories that can perform hundreds or thousands of simultaneous biochemical reactions. Biochips enable researchers to quickly...
Amgen Inc.
Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN, SEHK: 4332) is an American-based multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Located in the Conejo...
The Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society
The Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society is Canada's principal society for engineering in medicine and biology. The Society's aims are...
Erasmus Programme
Erasmus programme is a great opportunity to spend between 3 and 12 months in another European country, and have...
Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society
Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society (TBIS) is a charitable organization created to foster, develop and promote all aspects of science...
Bioengineering programmes rise to meet the challenge of a young science
When biology met engineering, they created a new field for scientists who don't want to be hedged into one discipline....
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Professor Miguel Ángel García receives the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council