Bridging Paradigm Gaps Between Biology and Engineering

Tissue engineering and developmental biology: going biomimetic.

This article contains the collective views expressed at the first session of the workshop "Tissue Engineering--The Next Generation," which was devoted to the interactions between developmental biology and tissue engineering. Donald Ingber discussed the chasms between developmental biology and tissue engineering from the perspective of a cell biologist who has had interest in tissue engineering ...

Bridging the Gap : Computer - Aided Engineering for Energy Security and Environmental Protection

Engineers use computational tools to address a variety of practical problems. Often, the role of computer aided engineering is to capture the opportunities for wealth creation, as well as societal and environmental impacts through integrating, otherwise disconnected, piece of knowledge and closing the gap between theoretical developments and corresponding applications. The present article repor...

Bridging Methodological Gaps in Network-Based Systems Biology

Bridging the gaps at the physics-chemistry-biology interface.

1Centre for Computational Science, University College London, Gordon Street, LondonWC1H 0AJ, UK 2Physics Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, CP 231, Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium 3Istituto Applicazioni del Calcolo-CNR, Viale del Policlinico 19, 00185 Roma, Italy 4Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard J. Paulson School of Engineering and A...

When Medicine Meets Engineering-Paradigm Shifts in Diagnostics and Therapeutics.

During the last two decades, the manufacturing techniques of microfluidics-based devices have been phenomenally advanced, offering unlimited potential for bio-medical technologies. However, the direct applications of these technologies toward diagnostics and therapeutics are still far from maturity. The present challenges lay at the interfaces between the engineering systems and the biocomplex ...