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Tag: biomedical engineering
Biomedical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes.
Could these tissue-engineered blood vessels help save lives during bypass surgery?
Biomedical engineers at the University of Melbourne have fabricated artificial vascular grafts that could prove useful during essential bypass surgery.
Could DNA-based sensors transform how we look at diagnostics?
Why this lab-on-a-patch device could propel us towards a preventative healthcare future.
3D bioprinting inside the human body could be possible thanks to new soft robot
Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a miniature and flexible soft robotic arm that could be used to 3D print ...
Most read articles of 2022 – Part 2
Our top articles of 2022 spanned topics such as medical marvels, scramjets and women in engineering. But who will take ...
Training surgeons with the next generation of surgical gloves
At Sydney’s Liverpool Hospital, trainees undergoing their surgical skills training were finding it challenging to put the feedback they received ...
“Life-changing value”: Australian engineers develop a device to help motor neurone disease sufferers
A device developed by Australian engineers could help sufferers of motor neurone disease and other conditions control electronics with their ...
The Australian biomedical engineers hoping to one day build back spines
Australian biomedical engineers are developing components of an injectable gel that could one day help regrow nerve fibres in the ...
AI enables laryngectomy patients to get their voice back
Australian start-up Laronix is developing a bionic device that uses AI-based voice-cloning technology to restore the voices of laryngectomy patients.
‘I have never attended a university in my life’: How Leo Barnes got into biomedical engineering
From a childhood fascination with radios to setting global standards, Leo Barnes came into the field of biomedical engineering by ...
