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THE BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE Building a new generation of sustainability innovators Through biomimicry education and entrepreneurship, we’re helping people create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet. Learn more about Biomimicry Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results. Watch Benyus's concept on Biomimicry |
Michael Pawlyn - Biomimicry in architectural design
A highly magnified view of the scales on on the butterfly wing. It's a Blue Morpho butterfly and this this shows how biology makes color effects. When we're making color, we often use quite toxic pigments but some of the most vibrant color effects in nature are just tricks of the light its is actually a micro structure that refract the light and creates a color effect. Butterfly Blueprints Preview | NOVA | WLIW |
Use "ASK NATURE" to find solutions to your concerning problems:
Explore nature’s solutions and the ideas they’ve inspired with this powerful, free online tool. Type in your question, for example, How does nature remove salt from water? Optogenetics (from Greek, Modern optikós, meaning 'seen, visible') is a biological technique that involves the use of light to control cells in living tissue, typically neurons, that have been genetically modified to express light-sensitive ion channels.www.youtube.com/watch?v=I64X7vHSHOE, 1980 John Shank
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Potato Head Theory, David Eagleman
Our brains haven't evolved to understand the world at that scale. Instead, we're trapped on this very thin slice of perception right in the middle. But it gets strange, because even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of the action that's going on. So take the colors of our world. This is light waves, electromagnetic radiation that bounces off objects and it hits specialized receptors in the back of our eyes. But we're not seeing all the waves out there. In fact, what we see is less than a 10 trillionth of what's out there. https://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_senses_for_humans/transcript?language=en |
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Pills, ping-pongs, and pufferfish The design for the new inflatable pill is inspired by the defense mechanisms of the pufferfish, or blowfish. Normally a slow-moving species, the pufferfish will quickly inflate when threatened, like a spiky balloon. It does so by sucking in a large amount of water, fast. The puffer’s tough, fast-inflating body was exactly what Zhao was looking to replicate in hydrogel form. The team had been looking for ways to design a hydrogel-based pill to carry sensors into the stomach and stay there to monitor, for example, vital signs or disease states for a relatively long period of time. |
German start-up BioNTech designs cancer vaccines and has teamed up with biotech titan Gentech. Together they have revolutionized the prevention and early treatment of 10 cancers.
BioNTech combines the scientific understanding of each cancer with the most advanced technologies to provide the best therapies to treat cancer patients individually. Read More: biontech.de/ and www.gentec-intl.com/ |
The winning technology could improve consumer experience using smartphones and other electronic displays by eliminating glare, and enhance the energy-conversion efficiency of solar cells by minimizing the amount of sunlight lost to reflection.
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The Create the Future Design Contest was launched in 2002 by the publishers of Tech Briefs magazine to help stimulate and reward engineering innovation. The annual event has attracted more than 14,000 product design ideas from engineers, entrepreneurs, and students worldwide. The contest's principal sponsors are COMSOL and Mouser Electronics with Analog Devices and Intel as supporting sponsors.
Category sponsors include Heilind/TE Connectivity, Maplesoft, Siemens PLM Software, and Zeus. The contest is produced by Tech Briefs Media Group. |
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Read More: www.nibib.nih.gov/science-education/science-topics/tissue-engineering-and-regenerative-medicine |
Bioengineering and Biotechnology FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY Section "Bioprocess Engineering" |
Electric eels can deliver a shock strong enough to knock a horse right off its feet, according to Smithsonian.com. This new soft power source isn’t that strong – but it could pave the way for powering devices without the concerns over toxicity or size associated with common batteries. University of Michigan, Adolphe Merkle Institute at the University of Fribourg, and University of California, San Diego researchers developed the power cell that “moves charged ions across a selective membrane to produce power.”
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Jordan Miller, Ph.D. is a post-doctoral researcher in the Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. The critical shortage of organ donors motivates his research to develop suitable replacement technologies. Miller involved with the 3D printing community since its infancy and he uses a RepRap 3D printer to print sugar filaments for research in regenerative medicine and credits open-source collaboration and the maker movement as important contributors to the success of his research.
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How Fish Skin Heals Animals Burned In Wildfires
Tilapia skin used to heal Brazilian burn victims Tilapia, is a fish that’s widely farmed in Brazil is placed on burns to keep them moist and allow the transfer of collagen, a protein that promotes healing * Unlike the gauze bandages, the sterilized tilapia skin goes on and stays on. * The amount of collagen proteins, types 1 and 3, exist in large quantities in tilapia skin, even more than in human skin and other skins. * The tilapia treatment also cuts down healing time by up to several days and reduces the use of pain medication |
https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/02/brazil-tilapia-skin-burns/
Doctors here are testing the skin of the popular fish as a bandage for second- and third-degree burns. The innovation arose from an unmet need. Animal skin has long been used in the treatment of burns in developed countries. But Brazil lacks the human skin, pig skin, and artificial alternatives that are widely available in the US. |
"...these here, are what come out and adhere to the wall and so here's another good example right here if this is an invasive plant in your area then that's why it's so important. Look if I do that, the paint comes off. To grow it in a pot indoors so it can't do this .." Source: Growing English Ivy (Hedera Helix) as a Houseplant |
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How to Build an Artificial Nose |
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