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bioengineeringApplication of engineering principles and equipment to biology and medicine. It includes the development and fabrication of life-support systems for underwater and space exploration, devices for medical treatment (see dialysis, prosthesis), and instruments for monitoring biological processes. Development has been particularly rapid in the area of artificial organs, which culminated in the implantation of an artificial heart into a human being in 1982. Bioengineers also develop equipment that enables humans to maintain body functions in hostile environments, such as the space suits worn by astronauts during extravehicular maneuvers. |
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This initiative is consistent with the recommendations of the Bioengineering Education and Training Panel which was convened as part of the 1998 Bioengineering Consortium (BECON) Symposium (the symposium report is available at http://www. Michael Roukes, professor of physics, applied physics and bioengineering at Caltech, said the current generation of devices is sensitive to added mass at the level of a few zeptograms. The fact that this phenomenon has gone missing from bioengineering papers for 20 years makes one wonder what else hasn't appeared. |
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