Biomedical Cybernetics is an innovative scientific approach that aims in a deeper understanding of function and development of complex living systems. It covers mathematical and structural description of information processing in organisms and ecosystems, decision making, e.g. in clinical application and statistical description of dynamical networks that describe e.g. the spreading of infectious diseaes.
Subject of biological cybernetics is the investigation of navigational principles that are essential for survival as well as reproduction of organisms. Being understood in the broadest possible sense the term “organism” covers all possible scales ranging from single organelles to the biosphere.
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Researchers at Purdue University’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering are in the process of developing scaffold-like materials that promises to speed up the recovery process for patients. The wound healing material has a fast curing time once inside the body.
Alyssa Panitch, an associate professor at Purdue University, heads the research team that discovered the liquid wound healing material, after numerous years of clinical testing at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. The material is being touted as a modern medicine breakthrough and promises to create an expedited process for burn victims and those that require the fastest recovery time possible.
The research is showing that the liquid material can be injected directly into a wound site and will solidify and fill any space needed. Once inside the body, the liquid spreads out and forms an almost immediate bonding for repairs of such wound treatments as mending damaged bones, spinal cord fusions, arterial reattachment, and other tissue rebuilding procedures.
This is a preview of Biomaterials Research Update: New Wound Healing Materials at Purdue.
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A novel approach to restoring sight using a ‘bionic eye‘ is being investigated at Swinburne University of Technology.
The laser stimulation of optic nerves is the focus of this research to develop a vision prosthesis – perhaps a tiny laser device fitted in a pair of spectacles – much like the cochlear implant for restoring hearing.
Bionic eye hope blends lasers and gold
Swinburne’s Applied Optics and Biomedical Engineering Groups are seeking government and philanthropic funding to progress this research using gold nanoparticles to amplify laser light.
DUTIES OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER:
Various activities that a biomedical engineer do are:
1.Using computer soft wares and mathematical models to develop medical equipments. This can also involve building prototypes , programming electronics as well as trouble shooting problems .
2.Coordinating with technicians , manufacturer to develop the final product .
3.Collecting data,conducting interviews and conferences to solve problems .
4.Working closely with other members of medical fraternity like doctors and therapists to make a product that satisfies everybody’s needs.
5.Doing modifications being suggested by professional and patients .
6.Making arrangements for conducting the clinical trails .
“Verbally”, an ingenious new Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) aid launched by Intuary, on May 18,2011, previously added to the iTunes app store of the iPad in March this year, has carved out a niche for itself in providing effective functional and interactive communication to people with speech disabilities, and thereby, ameliorating the diabolic conditions faced by them while trying to establish full interpersonal communications and social closeness and in removing the hurdles to developing their potential for education, employment and independence.
This is a preview of “VERBALLY”-‘The new voice of the DUMB’ By Manisha Manoharan.
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