Bioengineering and biotechnology

Bioengineering applies engineering principles of design and analysis to biological systems. This includes manipulation of an organism’s genome to produce chemicals or desired traits, the design of new medical imaging technology, portable disease diagnostic devices, and tissue-engineered organs.

Nanotechnology is manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres. It includes customised nanoparticles that deliver drugs directly to diseased cells, nanomaterials that change taste, safety and health benefits of food, and nanoparticles that react with contaminating chemicals in the environment to make them harmless.