Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Biology inspires engineering. | X Genome Biology Meeting report Biology inspires engineering Reine Byun and Attila Becskei Address Institute of Molecular Biology University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zurich Switzerland. Correspondence Attila Becskei. Email Abstract A report of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Wellcome Trust Meeting on Engineering Principles in Biology Cambridge UK 14-16 October 2009. Engineering has predominantly interacted with physics while biology has played the second fiddle for a long time even if biologically inspired contrivances such as aircraft imitating bird flight can be traced back as far as Classical Antiquity. A rapid intensification of the interplay between engineering and biology occurred in the second half of the 20th century as evidenced by magnetic resonance imaging MRI the artificial heart pacemaker and production of human recombinant insulin. The fifth annual meeting of Engineering Principles in Biology held recently in Hinxton on the outskirts of Cambridge presented engineering successes inspired by biology and explored the principles that have been extracted from the workings of living organisms to aid engineering especially biomedical engineering. The most frequently recurring principles were optimal design economy in design and the harnessing of and coping with the variability inherent in biological systems. Optimal design of structures Robert Full University of California Berkeley USA opened the meeting with a discussion of his research in neuromechanical systems biology. By integrating disciplines encompassing biology engineering and physics he and his team have built models based on the locomotion of animals ranging from cockroaches to geckos. Stability analysis of these models revealed that mechanical features of the animals alone are sufficient to stabilize the moving body against perturbations due to destabilizing forces or the unevenness of the environment. Neuronal feedbacks are required only for complex .
