What are some recent breakthroughs in bioengineering?

There are too many to list, so I'll give you a few of my favorites: 1) Reprogramming adult cells back to pluripotency (induced pluripotent stem cells) http://en.wikipedia. read more

Personally, I think the coolest type of technology that is really shaking up bioengineering is synthetic biology. In the last 10 years, we've seen a great number of applications of engineering microbial systems to synthesize a wide variety of materials and molecules in a scalable and economical platform. read more

Physicians, learn about some of the latest advances in biomedical engineering and how you can participate to help influence the direction of research and development. transcript BOB LANGER: Biomedical engineers try to address all kinds of, I think, exciting questions at the interface of medicine and engineering. read more