Skin and Vascular Grafts
Skin is a highly proliferative and regenerative tissue. It consists of two main layers: the dermis, whose main cellular components are stromal cells or fibroblasts, and the epidermis, whose main…
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Bone marrow is the body’s most prolific organ. It produces on the order of 400 billion myeloid cells daily, all of which originate from a small number of pluripotent stem…
Tissue Engineering
What Is Tissue Engineering? Tissue engineering is a biomedical engineering discipline integrating biology with engineering to create tissues or cellular products outside the body (ex vivo) or to use the…
Ceramics and Glasses
The advantages of the class of materials known as ceramics, which includes glasses, are that they are very biocompatible (particularly with bone), are inert, have low wear rates, are resistant…
Biomaterials
Materials In Medicine: From Prosthetics To Regeneration Throughout the ages, materials used in medicine (biomaterials) have made an enormous impact on the treatment of injury and disease of the human…
Biomechanics
Introduction Biomechanics combines engineering and the life sciences by applying principles from classical mechanics to the study of living systems. This relatively new field covers a broad range of topics,…
Cellular Organization
Although there are many smaller units such as enzymes and organelles that perform physiological tasks or have definable structures, the smallest anatomical and physiological unit in the human body that…
Anatomy and Physiology
Introduction Since biomedical engineering is an interdisciplinary field based in both engineering and the life sciences, it is important for biomedical engineers to have knowledge about and be able to…
Human Experimentation
Medical research has long held an exalted position in our modern society. It has been acclaimed for its significant achievements that range from the development of the Salk and Sabin…
Two Moral Norms: Beneficence and Nonmaleficence
Two moral norms have remained relatively constant across the various moral codes and oaths that have been formulated for health care providers since the beginnings of Western medicine in classical…
