We are excited to pass along an article written by Joanne Manaster, a faculty member in the School of Integrative Biology, and the head of our Bioengineering camp for G.A.M.E.S. Professor Manaster is also the author of the website Joanne Loves Science.
From the article:
"How often do you give thought to your heart? As long as your heart is beating properly and without pain, most of us are unconcerned with how doctors, scientists and engineers study the heart, diagnose problems, and create solutions to conditions and maladies that affect the heart.
When something goes wrong with the heart, doctors are able to diagnose the problem based on knowledge supplied by science. The tools doctors use to diagnose the problem (such as ultrasound, the electrocardiogram (EKG), the stethoscope and blood pressure machine) and then treat the problem (via stents, pacemakers, replacement valves and drugs) come from a field called bioengineering. Let’s take a look at how the broad field of bioengineering helps us when our heart is not at its best. By definition, bioengineering can be considered a combination of any field of engineering mixed with any field of biology, in any proportion."
To read the rest of this great article, please visit the website!
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