Medical challenges to which engineering might provide solutions
Medical advancement has been possible mainly due to two reasons. One reason is the spotting of problem that needs urgent attention. The other reason is the invention of new devices in the medical field. For example, the invention of laser has redefined surgical process entirely.
Back in the 1990s, Human Genome Project was considered one of the most important scientific tributes to the medical world. The purpose of the project was to find out the complete order of genetic code that holds the key to health and disease. Because of this project, it is now becoming possible to interpret the nature of a disease and also to invent new vaccines to fight the virus. Some equipment that has been invented includes automatic sequencers, robotic liquid-handling equipment and software for recording data and sequence arranging of genes.
The challenge for engineering is to come up with cheap and effective methods to pass down this new genetic knowledge to the public. For example, some treatment may need to input healthy genes into cells within the patient’s body. Bioengineering technique has allowed this to be possible by using ultrasonic waves to make cell walls temporarily permeable to the insertion of the genetic material.
With the help of technological advancement in the computer field, scientists are becoming clearer about the functions and structure of the human body. The idea is to build a model of the human body parts through visualization information. The scale of the information could range from the size of a body to the size of a single cell.
Bioengineering has become an important aspect of the medical field today and in the future. It seems that journey of bioengineering has just started and there are more challenges like ageing population which requires the involvement of bioengineering.
reference
http://www.nae.edu/nae/naecaets.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-5CAJK5?OpenDocument
2 comments:
Nice summary
You are able to pick out important points from the article regarding to the topic and you enchance the content by stating how engineers manage to come up with solutio to deal with the problem.
Because of the large amount of content in the article, I suggest that you just quickly run through each point as fast as possible instead of going to much into each point. This will help you to cover as everything without going into too much detail which may "bored" your reader
You have done a very good summary. After reading your post, I almost get the main idea of the original article.It is quite good to come up with the main idea straightforward and I think I have to learn from you.
A little suggestion is that I think you need to say more about the challenge of engineering--making it cheaper and more effective, it is too general and you need to say something beyond this!
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