The Gene Editing Juggernaut Is Picking Up Speed

The Gene Editing Juggernaut Is Picking Up Speed

The Gene Editing Juggernaut Is Picking Up Speed 789 444 IEEE Pulse

Gene editing is now on the threshold of becoming a mainstream treatment for a host of diseases and genetic treatments are posed to shape the future of health care

The Challenge of Sepsis: Solving This Global Health Problem Requires Cross-Disciplinary Innovation

The Challenge of Sepsis: Solving This Global Health Problem Requires Cross-Disciplinary Innovation

The Challenge of Sepsis: Solving This Global Health Problem Requires Cross-Disciplinary Innovation 789 444 IEEE Pulse

Sepsis is one of the largest health crises of our time, and an ideal group to fight it are the innovators who comprise IEEE.

New Strategies for Addressing Antibiotic Resistance Offer Promise, but Time is Running Out 

New Strategies for Addressing Antibiotic Resistance Offer Promise, but Time is Running Out

New Strategies for Addressing Antibiotic Resistance Offer Promise, but Time is Running Out 789 444 IEEE Pulse

As antibacterial resistance increases—now thought responsible for an estimated 5 million deaths worldwide each year—scientists are investigating two distinct approaches to combating this deadly problem: Develop new antibiotics that defy pathogen resistance or design methods that hone antibiotic selection and fight individual infections better

Artificial Intelligence Aided Ethics in Frontier Research

Artificial Intelligence Aided Ethics in Frontier Research

Artificial Intelligence Aided Ethics in Frontier Research 789 444 IEEE Pulse

Emergent technologies are frequently demonized due to the fear of the unknown. The doubts and alarms are more often than not sparked by their own developers, in a secret wish to become the masters of such fears, and thereby increase their control and influence upon laymen

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Good Ideas and Working Together 150 150 IEEE Pulse

Good Ideas and Working Together

The late physicist and Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling once said. “The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” And, that also implies that, of the many ideas generated in one’s head, a lot of them would not be classified as “good”; not all of our ideas are worth the calories they take to develop them.

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Engineering Superiority 150 150 IEEE Pulse

Engineering Superiority

The Famous engineer Henry Petroski once wrote about one of his students who asked, “Why do engineering students feel superior to those of us studying in nontechnical fields?”

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Digital Human Modeling and Medicine 150 150 IEEE Pulse

Digital Human Modeling and Medicine

This text, Digital Human Modeling and Medicine, is a comprehensive overview in 32 chapters distributed within six sections of the state-of-the-art and applications of the field of human modeling and applications in medicine

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Join the EMBS

In an era where technology is expanding at a rapid rate and the needs for medical application of these technologies has never been greater, the intersection between engineering, medicine and biology is a critical place to be. The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society is well-positioned to serve as a central gathering point for both of these major disciplines.