Bioengineering
The failure rates of transplants are high, and we don’t have enough organs. Bioengineering is definitely the long-term solution - Dr. Arthur Caplan
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Is Bioengineering More Efficient Humans the Solution to Climate Change?
Forget CFLs, hybrid cars, and organic jeans. Buying our way out of climate change — even if it’s green consumption — won’t get us far. We’ve got around seven billion people on Earth, more than double the population just 50 years ago, and that number keeps rising. Electricity and transportation aside, we humans collectively eat and drink a lot, and producing all of that food and water has a major impact on the climate. So, while we’re cutting our consumption in other areas, how to we reduce the carbon footprint of our own bodies?
A new paper, published in Ethics, Policy, and the Environment by NYU bioethics professor S. Matthew Liao, poses an answer: engineer humans to use less. The…
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Bioengineers Are Closer Than Ever To Lab-Grown Lungs
Bioengineering a lung is a bit like modeling with clay: Like a sculptor uses a wire armature to lend his creation form, Nichols' team grew the tissues and blood vessels of their lab-grown lungs atop a framework of tough, flexible proteins.
Engineering Implantable, Laboratory-Grown Organs To Cure Disease
Though medical science may still be years away from growing a heart outside of the human body, the scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) are getting closer every day to reproducing and perfecting many of the tissues, blood vessels and other organs of the human body.
No Donor Required: 5 Body Parts You Can Make With 3-D Printers
Recently, researchers have found some amazing healthcare and biological applications for 3-D printing technology, called bioprinting.
The High-Tech Future of the Uterus
Following the recent success of the world's first uterus transplant, scientists are pursuing the new frontier of the bioengineered womb.
3D bioprinting of tissues and organs
Recent advances have enabled 3D printing of biocompatible materials, cells and supporting components into complex 3D functional living tissues. 3D bioprinting is being applied to regenerative medicine to address the need for tissues and organs suitable for transplantation.
How Advances In Bioengineering Are Allowing People To Unlock Natural Resilience
Bioengineering is just another tool we can use to repair the body and possibly mind (ethically fraught territory there) when it is broken.
How Can Biomedical Engineers Help in Global Crises?
The ability of biomedical engineers, with knowledge of both engineering and health sciences, to contribute to the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time rests on two pillars: awareness and engagement.
How Engineering the Human Body Could Combat Climate Change
From drugs to help you avoid eating meat to genetically engineered cat-like eyes to reduce the need for lighting, a wild interview about changes humans could make to themselves to battle climate change.
It's time to question bio-engineering
Glowing dogs ... mice that grow human ears ... bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe describes an astonishing series of recent bio-engineering experiments, and asks: Isn't it time to set some ground rules?
Medical 3-D Printing Will ‘Enable a New Kind of Future’
Advances in 3-D printing and medical technology will soon make it possible to construct human tissue in a lab, implant it in a patient and watch it grow into the body. Tissue engineering, as it’s called, was just one of the exciting new technological advances researchers and doctors have made in the medical 3-D printing field, a potentially revolutionary industry.
New Fixes for Worn Knees
Scientists test implanting an artificial meniscus or inducing the body to grow a new one.
Reverse Biological Engineering: Tinkering with Life Teaches Us How It Began
In his new book, Creation, Adam Rutherford explores the emergence of synthetic biology and how it is not only leading to solutions for humanitarian problems but also unraveling the mystery of life’s origin.
Tissue engineering: Grow your own smart organs
Robert Langer thinks one day we could grow tissues and organs from our cells, which contain sensors that can alert you when illness is about to strike.
Genetically engineered humans will arrive sooner than you think. And we're not ready.
"What's happening is bigger than any one of us": a conversation with historian Michael Bess.
Is Bioengineering More Efficient Humans the Solution to Climate Change?
At what point does securing the future of the planet’s ecosystems — and thus securing our own future — require measures drastic enough to include altering our own biology?
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