Biomimicry Design Education Essentials

Low Power Design Essentials

Improving Cycling Through Design Informed by Biomimicry, Cognition, and Perception

Biomimicry in biomedical research

NEWS NEWS aND ViEWS Biomimicry (literally defined as the imitation of life or nature) has sparked a variety of human innovations and inspired countless cutting-edge designs. From spider silk-made artificial skin to lotus leaf-inspired self-cleaning materials , biomimicry endeavors to solve human problems. Biomimetic approaches have contributed significantly to advances biomedical research durin...

Essentials of doctoral education: organization of program around knowledge areas.

This article presents a case study describing how one nursing doctoral program faculty has identified, organized, and taught the disciplinary knowledge component of the curriculum. Three foci were chosen: health promotion and risk reduction; acute, critical, and long-term care; and systems. Faculty groups designed each focus to capitalize on current faculty research strengths and did not use a ...

Biomimicry of surfactant protein C.

Since the widespread use of exogenous lung surfactant to treat neonatal respiratory distress syndrome, premature infant survival and respiratory morbidity have dramatically improved. Despite the effectiveness of the animal-derived surfactant preparations, there still remain some concerns and difficulties associated with their use. This has prompted investigation into the creation of synthetic s...