Science Education - Engineering
Bioengineering
07:44Overview of Biomaterials
Biomaterials are materials engineered to interact favorably with biological organisms or molecules. These materials can be derived from or produced by an ...
07:25Collagen Hydrogels
Collagen is another widely used biomaterial that has found popularity in commercial applications, such as photography. Collagen has more recently been ...
07:58Electrospinning of Silk Biomaterials
Silk fibers have been processed and used to create fabrics and threads for centuries. However, the solubilizing of silk fibers, thereby turning it into a ...
08:28Overview of BioMEM Devices
Bio-microelectromechanical systems, also called BioMEMs, are microscale devices that enable the use of small sample and reagent volumes for diagnostic ...
07:44Microfabrication via Photolithography
The fabrication of BioMEM devices is often done using a microfabrication technique called photolithography. This widely used method utilizes light to ...
07:53Soft Lithography
Many BioMEM devices, such as microfluidic channels, are fabricated using the soft lithography technique. Here, a microscale pattern is replicated by ...
07:42Overview of Bioprocess Engineering
Bioprocessing is a method that uses living organisms to produce a desired target product. Often, bioprocessing refers to the use of bioreactors to produce ...
07:28Synthetic Biology
This video presents synthetic biology and its role in bioengineering. Synthetic biology refers to the methods used to genetically modify organisms in ...
09:40Batch and Continuous Bioreactors
Bioreactors are used to grow organisms in large volumes, thereby enabling the production of mass quantities of the target product. These reactors can be ...
06:40Overview of Biosensing
Biosensors are devices that use a wide range of biological processes and physical properties in order to detect either a biological molecule, such as a ...
07:39Electrochemical Biosensing
Electrochemical biosensors detect the binding of a target molecule by sensing an oxidation-reduction event. These sensors paved the way for modern ...
09:39Optical Biosensing
Optical biosensors utilize light to detect the binding of a target molecule. These sensors can utilize a label molecule, which produces a measurable ...
06:51Overview of Tissue Engineering
Tissue engineering aims to create artificial tissue from biomaterials, specific cells, and growth factors. These engineered tissue constructs have ...
09:35Histotypic Tissue Culture
Although two-dimensional tissue culture has been common for some time, cells behave more realistically in a three-dimensional culture, and more closely ...
08:45Whole Organ Tissue Culture
Whole organs can be cultured ex vivo using specialized bioreactors with the goal of repairing or replacing entire organs. This method uses a donor ...
