Engineering Meets the Human Body
The heart functions most like this type of mechanical device.
What is a pump?
This part of the cell contains DNA.
What is the nucleus?
This large pharmaceutical company gave a presentation to BMES on Chemical Engineering R&D.
What is Merck?
In the U.S. this governmental regulatory body decides which medical products have clearance to be sold on the market.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
This movie depicted the de-extinction of a terrifying set of species from the genetic content trapped within an amber resin.
What is Jurassic Park?
The lungs rely on this physical process to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What is diffusion?
This process copies DNA to produce RNA.
What is transcription?
This small startup company presented to BMES about their next generation vaccines.
What is IASO Therapeutics?
Companies try to secure this fifteen year protection document to maintain control over their ideas and prevent others from using them.
What is a patent?
This character found out why safety and regulation in BME is so important when he was poisoned by a palladium arc reactor.
Who is Iron Man?
This engineering term describes how the body maintains stable internal conditions like temperature and pH.
What is feedback control (or homeostasis)?
These tiny biological machines build proteins by reading RNA.
What are ribosomes?
This large medical devices company presented to BMES about the manufacturing side of BME.
What is Medtronic?
Keytruda is a drug that had the highest value for this metric, which measures the profitability of an investment by comparing the gain or loss against its initial cost.
What is return on investment (ROI)?
A cyborg containing pieces of human flesh and metal goes around reducing the human population in this film.
What is the Terminator?
The hierarchical struts on the Eiffel Tower are based on the microscopic structure of this hard tissue in the body.
What is bone?
These macromolecules do most of the work inside cells, acting as enzymes, receptors, structural components, and more.
What are proteins?
This building is home to most of the Biomedical Engineering research at MSU.
What is IQ (or Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering or Bioengineering Facility)?
This phase of trials is generally required for companies to test their product before it can be tested in Phase I for safety.
What is a preclinical trial?
GATTACA is a movie about an aspiring astronaut who cannot go to space because this biomolecule is analyzed to reveal a congenital defect.
What is DNA?
This dimensionless number indicates whether blood is turbulent or laminar and affects the rate of oxygen transfer.
What is the Reynolds number?
This type of stem cell can become almost every cell type in the body.
What are pluripotent stem cells?
A speaker from this company that develops neural probes presented to BMES about bioethics.
What is Spike Neuro?
These types of investors offer a small share of money for equity of a company.
What are angel investors (or VCs)?
This primitive piece of technology made of cloth was used in Pirates of the Caribbean to assist pirates when moving from a dark environment to a light environment.
What is an eye patch?