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| Let us study each one of the subjects briefly. |
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| a) Biomedical Engineering: |
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| Biomedical engineering as the term suggests is a fusion of two diverse fields, medicine and engineering. The tools of engineering are applied in studying various biological forms to repair and understand their workings. The main aim is to improve the health of people. |
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| The scientists working in this field are known as biomedical engineers who constantly work to create superior health products. They also try to modify and control biological systems so that they can replace, augment, or sustain chemical and mechanical processes. |
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| Biomedical engineering encompasses a variety of fields such as bioinformatics, biomechanics, image processing, medical imaging, biomaterials, systems analysis etc. |
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| b) Biotechnology: |
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| Biotechnology is the science of working with living cells and their molecules to produce varied products for the benefit of mankind. |
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| Biotechnology thus can also be defined as the manipulation of organisms to do practical things and to provide useful products. |
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| Biotechnology has been used since centuries; however recent developments have made the filed exciting. During the earlier eras, biotechnology was used to bake bread, brew alcoholic beverages, and breed food crops or domestic animals. The discovery that DNA stores genetic information was an important breakthrough that led to rapid development of Biotechnology. The pioneers of DNA research were James D. Watson and Francis Crick Maurice Wilkins who jointly received the Nobel Prize for their determination of the structure of DNA. You can find more information in the detailed article on biotechnology on our site. |
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| c) Biomedical informatics: |
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| Is a combination of information technology processes with medicine. Bioinformatics basically means a detailed study of a subject using host of tools and techniques from applied mathematics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence etc. So when we say biomedical informatics we are studying medical applications, medicine and health in particular. That is applying bioinformatics for improving health and studying health in detail. Bioinformatics is applied in gene finding, genome assembly, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions, and the modeling of evolution. |
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