Table of Contents

Perspectives of Biomechanics (Y-C Fung & W Huang); Cardiac Electromechanics in the Healthy Heart (R Kerckhoffs & A McCulloch); Cardiac Biomechanics and Disease (J H Omens); Bioengineering Solution for the Treatment of Heart Failure (J T Watson); Molecular Basis of Modulation of Vascular Functions by Mechanical Forces (S Chien); Autoregulation of Blood Flow: Examining the Process of Scientific Discovery (P C Johnson); Molecular Basis of Cell and Membrane Mechanics (L A Sung); Cell Activation in the Circulation: The Auto-Digestion Hypothesis (G W Schmid-Schonbein); Blood Substitutes and the Design of Oxygen Non-Carrying and Carrying Fluids (M Intaglietta); Analysis of Human Pulmonary Circulation: A Bioengineering Approach (W Huang et al.); Pulmonary Gas Exchange (P D Wagner); Engineering Approaches to Understanding the Kidney (S C Thomson); Skeletal Muscle Tissue Bioengineering (R Lieber & S R Ward); Multi-Scale Biomechanics of Articular Cartilage (W Bae & R Sah); Design and Development of an in vivo Force-Sensing Knee Prosthesis (D L D'Lima & P C Y Chen); The Implantable Glucose Sensor: A Bioengineering Case Study (D A Gough); Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine (L Goldstein); Engineering Compounds Targeted to Vascular Zip Codes (E Ruoslahti); The Structure of the Central Nervous System and Nanoengineering Approaches for Studying and Repairing It (G A Silva); Cellular Biophotonics: Laser Scissors (Ablation) (M W Berns); Electronic Microarrays for DNA to Nanofabrication Applications (M Heller); Systems Biology: A Four-Step Process (J Reed & B Palsson); Bioinformatics and Systems Biology: Obtaining the Design Principles of Living Systems (S Subramaniam); Synthetic Biology: Bioengineering at the Genomic Level (N Ostro et al.); Network Genomics (T Ideker); Genomes, Genomic Technologies and Medicine (X Huang); Ethics for Bioengineers (M Kalichman); Opportunities and Challenges in Bioengineering Entrepreneurism (J-S Lee); How to Move Medical Devices from Bench to Bedside (P Citron).