Description
To discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things, and harnesses these insights to create biologically inspired materials and devices that will revolutionize healthcare and create a more sustainable world.
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Program areas at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Research and technology development on Biologically Inspired Engineering focused on biological control, living material, and biology. The Institute conducts its research and development activities using focus areas to create new bioinspired materials and devices, and to translate them into products. The eight focus areas are: adaptive material technologies, bioinspired soft robotics, immuno-materials, living cellular devices, bioinspired therapeutics and diagnostics, molecular robotics, 3d organ Engineering, and synthetic biology.