• Question: What is bioengineering?

    Asked by johnson95 to Alexandra, Dean, Jess, Luisa, Sian on 22 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Sian Foch-Gatrell

      Sian Foch-Gatrell answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      It’s just engineering applied to biological systems like biosensors etc

    • Photo: Dean Whittaker

      Dean Whittaker answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Thats out of my field

    • Photo: Luisa Ostertag

      Luisa Ostertag answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      I am not 100% sure but I think it brings together skills from engineering (more kinetics, mechanics etc) together with biology to make new applications.

    • Photo: Jessica Housden

      Jessica Housden answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      It’s basically using engineering to help solve biological problems. There’s also bio-mimetrics; using biology to help solve engineering problems (for example velcro, which was invented after the sticky grass burs).

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