a School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA Department of Bioengineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Graduate Program in Biophysics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Center for Bioengineering in the Service of Humanity and Society, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew Un...

Luke BASHFORD , Jing WU, Devapratim SARMA, Kelly COLLINS, Jeff OJEMANN, Carsten MEHRING Imperial College London, Bioengineering, UK; Bernstein Centre & Faculty of Biology & BrainLinks-BrainTools, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany; Bioengineering, Ctr. for Sensorimotor Neural Eng., Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Ctr. for Sensorimotor Neural Eng., Univ. of Washington, USA. *Corresponding author LB: luke.ba...

C. Anthony Hunt, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, The University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA, [email protected] Andrew D. Gewitz, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering and School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, [email protected] Tai ning Lam, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, The University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA, t...

The following essay was written by a sophomore undergraduate student majoring in Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, Mr. Zachary Russ. Mr. Russ was one of 174 students who submitted a 1000-1200 word essay to the 4th Annual Bioethics Contest sponsored by the Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE). A group of professionals in Biological Engineering assessed and ranked the essays in a...

Eroding stream and river banks can threaten agricultural assets, riparian infrastructure, and can significantly impact the environment. There are many different approaches to stabilizing and restoring stream and river banks. Streambank Soil Bioengineering is one of the approaches that are gaining favor for being both cost effective and environmentally sensitive. The term “Streambank Soil Bioeng...

1 Acting Director, Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service, U.S. Veterans Administration, Washington 25, D.C. THE limbs of m a n move in space and t ime, in response to systems of internal and external forces, and in accordance wi th the laws of mechanics. To restore to any satisfactory extent the functions lost through amputa t ion of an ext remi ty therefore requires in t imate knowledge not only...

*Correspondence: Anja Hartmann, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstr. 3, OT Gatersleben, Stadt Seeland 06466, Germany e-mail: [email protected] The characterization of biological systems with respect to their behavior and functionality based on versatile biochemical interactions is a major challenge. To understand these complex mechanisms at sy...

During the PhD, the candidates develop a scientifi c research project dealing with a complex problem (which can be at different scales, from the molecular and the cellular levels to living organisms up to biomedical systems) and investigate original methods, devices, and systems with different purposes: increasing knowledge, proposing innovative methods for diagnosis and therapy as well as impr...

Corneal transplantation is an important surgical treatment for many common corneal diseases. However, a worldwide shortage of tissue from suitable corneal donors has meant that many people are not able to receive sight-restoring operations. In addition, rejection is a major cause of corneal transplant failure. Bioengineering corneal tissue has recently gained widespread attention. In order to f...