Essays on Biomedical Engineering

John Swales defines the term discourse communities as ‘groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals’ (4). A discourse community is defined by the following six characteristics: The community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals, the community…

After reading ‘oxygen’, which was a fascinating story exploring how oxygen shaped our existence and our world, I became deeply interested in our cellular evolution. The author, Nick Lane, challenged me to think beyond the surface of our existence, and want to discover more about…

In a recent talk I bared witness to, the age we are in was perfectly described as a “medical industrial revolution”. The intricacy of life and its processes provides a stark contrast to the reality of the industrial revolution. However, the speed and innovation of…

Novel drug delivery systems is a field of which demands constant innovation. The healthcare industry is in continued search for delivery systems which can accurately deliver the drugs to target site with ideally no adverse effects. A poster-perfect drug delivery system is biocompatible and able…

Downstream processing refers to the processes that take place after fermentation to recover and purify the product. Following cell culture, recovery is carried out by centrifugation and filtration from which the resulting cell harvest is transferred to the low-productivity purification processes. Purification of biologics involves…

Abstract Every year, many individuals are drown in the deeps of the beach, and the lifeguards are not well trained enough to handle these situations. Thus arises the requirement for having a system that will consequently detect the drowning individuals and alarm the life guard…

Being able to study and comprehend how the complex structure of the human body works, changes and adapts according to the environment it is surrounded with. How the structure and functions of our body fights with diseases daily and the way it can carry out…

CNS regenerationThe ability to regenerate the tissues of the human central nervous system(CNS) is one of the greatest projects undertaken by biomedical engineerstoday. With this eventual technology, permanent paralysis and blindnessdue to CNS injury will be a thing of the past. Central nervous systeminjuries will…

Winged Needles to Universal Vaccines The caduceus, the symbol of medicine featuring two snakes winding around a winged staff, is often found in the United States, but its significance is not well known. Back in ancient times, parasitic infection was quite common due to lack…

Bio Engineering is a very recent field involving the problem-solving and ingenuity of engineering and using the sciences of medicine and biology for the development of new medical devices and techniques (CBME, 2016). Bioengineering first became relevant in the late 19th century after German physicist…