SciShow
3D Printing and the Future of Stuff
What if instead of going to the store to buy a new toilet brush, all you had to do was walk into your office and print one out? With recent advances in 3D printing, such a scenario might not be as far away as you think. Chapters PRINT...
Crash Course
Biomedical & Industrial Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #6
We’ve discussed the four main branches of engineering but there are so many other fields doing important work, so today we’re going to explore a few of them. In this episode we’ll explore some of the history and fundamentals of...
Science Buddies
How to Build Your Own Microfluidic Device
In this project you will use the Engineering Design Process to test and design your own microfluidic device design and test how the design and thickness of the channels impacts the ability for liquid to flow through the microfluidic...
Curated Video
Life-like Blobs Formed in a Test Tube
How did the very first cells evolve? Most of the basic building blocks can be produced in simple experiments under early Earth-like conditions. However, certain complex cellular behaviours, like movement, have always seemed far-beyond...
Curated Video
Nano-bots to Cure Cancer?
You may have heard of nano-robots, but are these really “robots” (like Transformers), or are they something completely different? Professor Stoyan Smoukov shows us how nano-scale devices can be easily ‘grown’ from simple sources and how...
Curated Video
Foetal Sac Surgery Before the Baby is Even Born
What do we do if the foetal sac tears during pregnancy? Doctors can do surgery on a foetus before it’s born. That’s amazing. But, to do this, they need to pierce the sac that holds the amniotic fluid around the foetus. Patching up this...
Professor Dave Explains
Bioengineer Jessica Griffiths (Get to Know a Scientist!)
Jessica is a bioengineer at Caltech that studies the gut-brain axis, and in particular how autism-related genetic mutations impact gut dysfunction. It's pretty cutting edge stuff, let's take a look inside her lab and hear about what she...
Next Animation Studio
How scientists have transplanted a lab-grown lung into a pig
A study published in Science Translational Medicine describes how scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig.
The Wall Street Journal
Demo: The Baby Face of the Robot Uprising
Soul Machines co-founder and CEO Mark Sagar demonstrates the company's animated virtual baby, BabyX, at the WSJ D.Live conference in Laguna Beach, Calif.
Next Animation Studio
Mushroom and bacteria turn light into clean energy
A team from the Stevens Institute of Technology have developed a 'power mushroom' able to create renewable energy.
PBS
Career Connections | Operations Strategic Planner
The job of an operations strategic planner is to ensure that decision-makers have the information they need to make sure the company operates smoothly and cost-effectively. Watch a brief video to take a look at the range of...
PBS
Hot Shots and Hot Jobs: Biomechanical Engineering of a Nano-Tattoo
The job of the biomechanical engineer is to figure out how physical forces influence living organisms. The narrator describes the education needed, while a fascinating video shows how engineers develop tattoos that can control remote...
PBS
Career Connections | Biomedical Engineer
Interesting in both engineering and medicine. Then a career in biomedical engineering is for you. The narrator of a short video introduces viewers to his work with developing devices that monitor different signals that the body generates.
Bite Sci-zed
Biomimicry
Nature often offers the best inspiration. Scholars learn about biomimicry and how humans often copy nature to create new products. They explore real-world examples such as including solar panels that mimic leaves, the texture of shark...
Crash Course
Biomaterials: Crash Course Engineering #24
Let materials science come alive in your classroom. Scholars learn about biomaterials by watching an engaging video. They see how titanium, polyurethane, hydrogels, and other materials are used in medicine and bioengineering.
SciShow
Synthetic Jellyfish
If you take silicone and apply muscle cells from a rat's heart, can you make a jellyfish? Turns out, the answer is mostly yes. The video is a perfect introduction to tissue engineering and the major benefits people can get from this...
Engenius Films
Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration
Meet Lindsey, a mechanical engineer who has taken up bioengineering. She uses her skills to model blood vessels and their interaction with regenerating tissues. She continues to discuss the future of bioengineering in an informative video.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Advances in Neurotechnology
In this video segment from Greater Boston, learn how a man with severe motor disabilities can operate a computer and move a prosthetic hand by simply thinking the commands, thanks to the combined efforts of bioengineers and neuroscientists.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Design Inspired by Nature
In this stills collage produced for Teachers' Domain, see several examples of everyday inventions that were either inspired by nature or are similar in form and function to plants or animals.
Museum of Science
Ei E: Designing a Model Membrane (1)
Students focus on the bioengineering problem of meeting the basic needs of an organism as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own model membrane.
Museum of Science
Ei E: Just Passing Through: Designing Model Membranes Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Juan Daniel, a boy from El Salvador, learns about bioengineering as he designs his own model membrane. [14:31]
Museum of Science
Ei E: Biology Meets Technology
Students think like bioengineers as they match natural objects with technologies that have similar functions.
Museum of Science
Ei E: Just Passing Through: Designing Model Membranes Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Juan Daniel, a boy from El Salvador, learns about bioengineering as he designs his own model membrane. [18:27]
Museum of Science
Ei E: Designing Model Membranes: Biology Meets Technology
In this video [12:44] students think like bioengineers as they match natural objects with technologies that have similar functions.