From X-rays to DNA : how engineering drives biology /

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"Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological advances. Decoding the double helix structure of DNA, for example, only became possible after significant advances in such technologies as X-ray diffraction and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Lee, W. David, 1946- (Autor), Drazen, Jeffrey M., 1946- (Autor), Sharp, Phillip A. (Autor), Langer, Robert S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Temas:
Biomedical engineering.
Medicine > Research > History.
Medical instruments and apparatus > Technological innovations.
Surgical instruments and apparatus > Technological innovations.
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Technology
Génie biomédical.
Médecine > Recherche > Histoire.
Médecine > Appareils et instruments > Innovations.
Chirurgie > Appareils et matériel > Innovations.
biomedical engineering.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
Biomedical engineering
Medical instruments and apparatus > Technological innovations
Medicine > Research
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An opportunity for greater discovery
  • Concurrent engineering and science
  • Engineering and the engineer
  • Discovery of chromosomes and the submicrometer microscope
  • DNA: gels, paper, and columns
  • Structure of DNA and proteins: X-ray diffraction
  • Observing DNA and protein in action: radioisotope labels
  • Transcription and electron microscopy
  • Protein and DNA automated sequencing
  • Concurrent versus nonconcurrent engineering
  • The engineers and scientists of concurrent engineering
  • Institutions and teams for concurrent biology engineering
  • Concurrent engineering in the clinic
  • Unmet needs: mapping and understanding cell signaling
  • Unmet needs: cancer example
  • Summing up.

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