Biomedical Engineering articles, editorials and views from the field
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Quelling Fear about the Smallest Nanoparticles
Teensy Nanoparticles:Not so Poisonous The finest nano-sized silica particles used in biomedical engineering likely won't cause unexpected biological responses due to their size, according to scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. This news should calm fears that cells and tissues will react erratically when exposed to the smallest silica nanomaterials....
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MRIs Could Get Colorized
Bye Bye, Black and White ... Hello, Color Customized microscopic magnets that might one day be injected into the body could add color to magnetic re...
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Five Hall of Fame Technologies
Drum Roll, Please The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Hall of Fame recently added five key innovations to its honor roll o...
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How’d They Get Their Start? Overachievers in Biomedical Engineering
There"s Smart, and then there"s Mega-Smart Biomedical engineers are smart people; this is a universal truth.As a rule, dim-witted people do not develop bioartifi...