Biological properties can be measured and altered using electronics, magnetics, photonics, sensors, circuits, and algorithms. Applications range from basic biological science to clinical medicine and enable new discoveries, diagnoses, and treatments by creating novel circuits, devices, systems, and analyses.
Examples include:
- Measuring molecular concentrations
- Measuring and altering activity of electrically-excitable cells such as neurons
- Building implantable bio-sensors, bio-stimulators, and closed-loop delivery systems
- Brain-machine interfaces
- On-chip imaging and sensing
- Photonic systems for in vivo imaging
- DNA synthesis and sequencing
- Nucleic acid synthesis, sequencing, and analysis
- THz and differential phase contrast x-ray imaging
- Wireless sensing and powering
- Constructing low-cost devices for point-of-care medical applications
- Designing new algorithms and systems for early cancer screening and detection