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"Introduction to Biomedical Engineering" is a comprehensive survey text for biomedical engineering courses. It is the most widely adopted text across the BME course spectrum, valued by instructors and students alike for its authority, clarity, and encyclopedic coverage in a single volume.

The Engineering of Human Joint Replacements covers the design, engineering, production and manufacture of human joint replacements, as well as associated engineering concerns such as surface coatings, orthopaedic bone cement, the causes and effects of wear and tear, and rapid prototyping for clinical evaluation. Materials evaluation and selection is discussed, as well as production processes and insertion methods. The author also gives an overview...

Our lives are about to be changed by new technologies that operate on a scale that is smaller than can be seen by the most powerful optical microscopes. Devices inspired by living cells and measured in nanometers - billionths of a meter - are the basis of this nanotechnology revolution. Michael Gross takes us to this world to explore natural processes and new technologies that will make modern machines look like relics from the Stone Age.

"Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological advances. Decoding the double helix structure of DNA, for example, only became possible after significant advances in such technologies as X-ray diffraction and gel electrophoresis. Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis improved as new technologies--including the stethoscope, the microscope, and the X-ray--developed....

Curosurf is a clinical treatment for pre-term infants - born before 37 weeks of gestational age - suffering from infant respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), a life-threatening condition of the lungs. Curosurf was developed by Tore Curstedt and Bengt Robertson. Curstedt's solution relies on a phospholipid extract of natural porcine lungs with the chemical name poractant alfa. Administered through a breathing tube and inserted into the trachea, Curosurf...

In 1983, a radiotherapy machine was accidentally sold to a scrapyard in Mexico and cut open. The result has been described as the worst radioactive spillage in North America. Workers suffered vomiting, skin lesions, and sterility.

"This practical guide to biosimulation provides the hands-on experience needed to devise, design and analyze simulations of biophysical processes for applications in biological and biomedical sciences. Through real-world case studies and worked examples, students will develop and apply basic operations through to advanced concepts, covering a wide range of biophysical topics including chemical kinetics and thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and...

"Discusses the history of technological innovation in the biosciences"-- "Scholars and policymakers alike agree that innovation in the biosciences is key to future growth. The field continues to shift and expand, and it is certainly changing the way people live their lives in a variety of ways. But despite the lion's share of federal research dollars being devoted to innovation in the biosciences, the field has yet to live up to its billing as a...

Helen Lee and her team at the Diagnostics Development Unit at University of Cambridge created the fundamental principle behind simple, rapid, point-of-care diagnostic tests for a range of different infectious diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis B, chlamydia, gonorrhoea or influenza. The rapid results of the test also solve the problem of patients being "lost to follow-up" - by showing up for tests, leaving, and not returning for diagnosis - which can...

Do normal humans actually possess the ability to have super powers? Modern Marvels explores how science and technological advances can turn mere men into supermen! An exoskeleton can help a man lift hundreds of pounds, while artificial muscles developed at the University of Texas are 400 times stronger than a human's.