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The Intersection of Biology and Materials Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

George M. Whitesides  and
Amy P. Wong
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Abstract

This article is based on the plenary address given by George M. Whitesides of Harvard University on March 30, 2005, at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco. Materials science and biomedicine are arguably two of the most exciting fields in science today. Research at the border between them will inevitably be a major focus, and the applications of materials science to problems in biomedicine—that is, biomaterials science—will bud into an important new branch of materials science. Accelerating the growth of this area requires an understanding of two very different fields, and being both thoughtful and entrepreneurial in considering “Why?” “How?” and “Where?” to put them together. In this fusion, biomedicine will, we believe, set the agenda; materials science will follow, and materials scientists must learn biology to be effective.

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biologicalbiomedicalnanoscale.
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MRS Bulletin , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 19 - 27
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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