Bioengineering

Biomaterials are materials engineered to interact favorably with biological organisms or molecules. These materials can be derived from or produced by an ...

Collagen is another widely used biomaterial that has found popularity in commercial applications, such as photography. Collagen has more recently been ...

Silk fibers have been processed and used to create fabrics and threads for centuries. However, the solubilizing of silk fibers, thereby turning it into a ...

Bio-microelectromechanical systems, also called BioMEMs, are microscale devices that enable the use of small sample and reagent volumes for diagnostic ...

The fabrication of BioMEM devices is often done using a microfabrication technique called photolithography. This widely used method utilizes light to ...

Many BioMEM devices, such as microfluidic channels, are fabricated using the soft lithography technique. Here, a microscale pattern is replicated by ...

Bioprocessing is a method that uses living organisms to produce a desired target product. Often, bioprocessing refers to the use of bioreactors to produce ...

This video presents synthetic biology and its role in bioengineering. Synthetic biology refers to the methods used to genetically modify organisms in ...

Bioreactors are used to grow organisms in large volumes, thereby enabling the production of mass quantities of the target product. These reactors can be ...

Biosensors are devices that use a wide range of biological processes and physical properties in order to detect either a biological molecule, such as a ...

Electrochemical biosensors detect the binding of a target molecule by sensing an oxidation-reduction event. These sensors paved the way for modern ...

Optical biosensors utilize light to detect the binding of a target molecule. These sensors can utilize a label molecule, which produces a measurable ...

Tissue engineering aims to create artificial tissue from biomaterials, specific cells, and growth factors. These engineered tissue constructs have ...

Although two-dimensional tissue culture has been common for some time, cells behave more realistically in a three-dimensional culture, and more closely ...

Whole organs can be cultured ex vivo using specialized bioreactors with the goal of repairing or replacing entire organs. This method uses a donor ...