Biological engineering

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Biological engineering (a. k. a. biosystems engineering, bioengineering) is any type of engineering--for example, mechanical engineering--applied to living things.

Contents 1 Examples 2 Related topics 3 External links 3.1 References

Examples

• Aquaculture
• Biosensors
• Bio-based materials
• Biomaterials
• Industrial fermentation
• Industrial enzymatic reactions
• Production and purification of biopharmaceuticals
• Advanced life support
• Artificial biospheres, eg. Biosphere 2

Related topics

Biological engineering has significant overlap with food process engineering, agricultural engineering and biomedical engineering.

External links

• The Institute of Biological Engineering
• About biological engineering at MIT

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Biological_engineering" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_engineering, used under the GNU Free Documentation License