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Synthesis of Keratin-based Nanofiber for Biomedical Engineering
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2016
Electrospun nanofibers have a high surface area to weight ratio, excellent mechanical integrity, and support cell growth and proliferation. These nanofibers have a wide range of biomedical applications. Here we fabricate keratin/ PCL nanofibers, using the electrospinning technique, and characterize the fibers for possible applications in tissue engineering.
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Generation of Alginate Microspheres for Biomedical Applications
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2012
In the following sections, we outline procedures for the preparation of alginate microspheres for use in biomedical applications. We specifically illustrate a technique for creating multilayered alginate microspheres for the dual purpose of cell and protein encapsulation as a potential treatment for type 1 diabetes.
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BioMEMS: Forging New Collaborations Between Biologists and Engineers
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2007
This video describes the fabrication and use of a microfluidic device to culture central nervous system (CNS) neurons. This device is compatible with ...
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Fabricating Superhydrophobic Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Applications
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2015
Two- and three-dimensional superhydrophobic polymeric materials are prepared by electrospinning or electrospraying biodegradable polymers blended with a lower surface energy polymer of similar composition.
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Experimental Approaches to Tissue Engineering
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2007
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Engineers convert observations about living systems into measurable requirements. Those requirements guide the design of a diagnostic device, prosthetic limb, imaging system, biomaterial, or tissue-engineered construct. Testing and optimization then connect the technology’s performance to the biological problem it addresses, helping move laboratory understanding toward practical solutions for disease detection, treatment, rehabilitation, or patient care.
Different biological and medical challenges require complementary ways to represent and measure function. Materials science, mechanics, electronics, computation, and biochemical analysis provide distinct engineering perspectives that can be combined with biology. This integration helps teams design, test, and optimize technologies while addressing complex living systems more effectively than a single discipline could alone.
Testing determines whether a proposed technology performs according to requirements derived from biology or medicine, while optimization improves its suitability for the intended purpose. This process connects scientific understanding with practical use and can refine diagnostic devices, imaging systems, biomaterials, prosthetic limbs, and tissue-engineered constructs before they contribute to research or patient care.
A common workflow begins by understanding a biological mechanism or health need, translating that understanding into measurable engineering requirements, and selecting relevant tools or materials. Researchers then design a technology, test its performance, and optimize it. Depending on the goal, the result may be a research model, diagnostic or treatment tool, rehabilitation technology, or foundation for personalized therapy.
It supports disease detection through diagnostic devices and medical imaging, treatment through engineered technologies and biomaterials, and rehabilitation through prosthetic limbs. Tissue-engineered constructs extend this range, while research models and clinical tools connect laboratory discoveries with practical needs. These applications allow the field to contribute across multiple stages of research, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
It gives biological research ways to represent living processes as measurable engineering requirements and to build tools around them. Research models can help investigate biological mechanisms, while biochemical analysis, computation, imaging, and engineered constructs expand how those mechanisms are examined. This connection allows biological findings to inform technologies and creates practical tools for continued biological and medical research.
Personalized therapies depend on connecting biological understanding with an engineered approach to care. Biomedical engineering supports that connection by translating biological mechanisms into measurable requirements and using them to guide diagnostic, treatment, or tissue-focused technologies. This framework helps link biological information with solutions designed to address particular health needs rather than relying on a single approach for every situation.