The mission of the Richard and Loan Hill Department of Bioengineering is to provide an environment where students can achieve a high level of competence in the skills and knowledge inherent to the discipline of biomedical engineering/bioengineering (synonymous terms for accreditation). The discipline of bioengineering is distinguished by the application of quantitative engineering analysis and ...

i Declaration The experiments in this thesis constitute work carried out by the candidate unless otherwise stated. The thesis is less than 30,000 words in length, exclusive of tables, figures, bibliography and appendices, and complies with the stipulations set out for the degree of Master of Engineering by the National University of Singapore. well as technical and non-technical advices have al...

Abstract Nitrates when found in excess in the groundwater, is a health hazard. Nitrates can easily be transported by groundwater movement and may eventually reach aquifers located far away from the contamination location. It is important to monitor the nitrate movement in the groundwater to predict the extent of nitrate contamination. Traditionally, nitrate movement is monitored by sampling gro...

Blood, the vascular tissue, is vital for nutrient transport, immune-surveillance, hemostasis, and wound healing, all of which are critical in order to maintain normal physiology (Lichtman, et al., 2006; Rosenberg & Aird, 1999). Consequently, the pathophysiology of a large number of diseases can be traced to abnormalities in blood flow and function. Hence, assays for composition and function of ...

Bio peptone is a combination of enzymatic digest of animal tissues and casein; and generally used for the growth of several varieties of microbes. The aim of present study was to investigate the impact of biofield energy treatment on the physicochemical and spectroscopic properties of bio peptone. The present study was carried out in two groups i.e. control and treated. The control group was ke...

Strategies for rationally manipulating cell behavior in cell-based technologies and molecular therapeutics and understanding effects of environmental agents on physiological systems may be derived from a mechanistic understanding of underlying signaling mechanisms that regulate cell functions. Three crucial attributes of signal transduction necessitate modeling approaches for analyzing these sy...

T cells play a crucial role in the host defense against pathogens and cancer cells. Using systems approaches, we studied the dynamics in protein translation and metabolic activity in resting and activated T cells from healthy donors. Our results revealed that T cells fundamentally remodel the arginine metabolism following activation, and that the amino acid L-arginine globally regulates metabol...