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035 _a(CaBNVSL)mat06670254
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050 4 _aR856
_bL383 2014eb
082 0 4 _a610.28
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100 1 _aLee, W. David,
_d1946-,
_eauthor.
_924169
245 1 0 _aFrom X-rays to DNA :
_bhow engineering drives biology /
_cDavid W. Lee, with Jeffrey Drazen, Phillip A. Sharp, and Robert S. Langer.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bMIT Press,
_c[2014]
264 2 _a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :
_bIEEE Xplore,
_c[2013]
300 _a1 PDF (xii, 233 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aelectronic
_2isbdmedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
506 1 _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520 _aEngineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological advances. Decoding the double helix structure of DNA, for example, only became possible after significant advances in such technologies as X-ray diffraction and gel electrophoresis. Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis improved as new technologies -- including the stethoscope, the microscope, and the X-ray -- developed. These engineering breakthroughs take place away from the biology lab, and many years may elapse before the technology becomes available to biologists. In this book, David Lee argues for concurrent engineering -- the convergence of engineering and biological research -- as a means to accelerate the pace of biological discovery and its application to diagnosis and treatment. He presents extensive case studies and introduces a metric to measure the time between technological development and biological discovery.Investigating a series of major biological discoveries that range from pasteurization to electron microscopy, Lee finds that it took an average of forty years for the necessary technology to become available for laboratory use. Lee calls for new approaches to research and funding to encourage a tighter, more collaborative coupling of engineering and biology. Only then, he argues, will we see the rapid advances in the life sciences that are critically needed for life-saving diagnosis and treatment.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web
588 _aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.
650 0 _aBiomedical engineering.
_93292
650 0 _aMedicine
_xResearch
_xHistory.
_924170
650 0 _aMedical instruments and apparatus
_xTechnological innovations.
_924171
650 0 _aSurgical instruments and apparatus
_xTechnological innovations.
_924172
655 0 _aElectronic books.
_93294
700 1 _aLanger, Robert S,
_eauthor.
_924173
700 1 _aSharp, Phillip A,
_eauthor.
_924174
700 1 _aDrazen, Jeffrey M.,
_d1946-,
_eauthor.
_924175
710 2 _aIEEE Xplore (Online Service),
_edistributor.
_924176
710 2 _aMIT Press,
_epublisher.
_924177
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780262019774
856 4 2 _3Abstract with links to resource
_uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6670254
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