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IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter
The IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter is a new initiative to bring forth interesting articles and informative interviews within the exciting field of life sciences every month.
by Cynthia Weber
As technology becomes further integrated into modern health care, the need for standardization and interoperability becomes more urgent. IEEE Life Sciences talks with Bill Ash, Strategic Technology Program Director with the IEEE Standards Association, about the evolving field.
by Shannon Fischer
In June, synthetic biologists and bioengineers from as near as MIT and as far as the National University of Singapore gathered at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts for the second annual Synthetic Biology, Engineering, Evolution, and Design (SEED) Conference to share …
by Steffen Waldherr and Bayu Jayawardhana
The IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) is one of the member societies of the IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community, and control systems engineers have much to contribute to research in the life sciences. The purpose of this article is to …
Introduction to Genome Editing Using CRISPR/Cas9 from Innovative Genomics Initiative on Vimeo.
Discovered by Jennifer Doudna at UC Berkeley in 2012, CRISPR/Cas9, a precise tool for genome editing, is now being used in laboratories all over the world to enhance our understanding of how living …
By Cynthia Weber
IEEE Life Sciences talks with Richard Murray, Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering at Caltech, about the promise of synthetic biology; the goals of the SEED conference, an annual technical conference dedicated to the broad spectrum of technologies that fall under …
Steffen Waldherr studied Engineering Cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and Applied Mathematics at the INSA Rouen, France. He received a MSc (Dipl.-Ing.) in Engineering Cybernetics in 2005 and a Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Engineering in 2009, both from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He …
Bayu Jayawardhana received a bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia in 2000, a M.Eng. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2003. and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Imperial College …
Richard M. Murray received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 1985 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He is currently the Thomas E. …
Dr. Jindong Liu is a research fellow at the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London. He is interested in fields related to biologically inspired mobile robotics.
Denis Huen is an M.Res. candidate in Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention at the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London. He is interested in fields related to nanotechnology, biomedical engineering, and biologically inspired robotics.
