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Tech in Bioelectronics Engineering
There is an opportunity
for dramatically increased synergy between electronics and biology, fostered by
the march of electronics technologies to the atomic scale and rapid advances in
system, cell, and molecular biology. Bioelectronics is the discipline resulting
from the convergence of biology and electronics and it has the potential to
significantly impact many areas important to the nation’s economy and
well-being, including healthcare and medicine, homeland security, forensics,
and protecting the environment and the food supply. Not only can advances in
electronics impact biology and medicine, but conversely understanding biology
may provide powerful insights into efficient assembly processes, devices, and
architectures for nanoelectronics technologies, as physical limits of existing
technologies are approached.
National
Status: Bioelectronics is the discipline resulting from the convergence of
biology and electronics and it has the potential to significantly impact many
areas important to the nation’s economy and well-being, including healthcare
and medicine, homeland security, forensics, and protecting the environment and
the food supply. The current fields such as Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, and
Electronics work independently and are not only unable to provide skilled
workforce but also failed in providing ground-breaking solutions. A
multidisciplinary approach will be the gamechanger in Higher education.
National Education Policy and AICTE recommend multidisciplinary studies,
especially in universities.
A number of
themes currently dominate medical research headlines—for example gene therapy,
gene silencing via siRNA, CRISPR and gene editing, immuno-oncology and the gut
microbiome-brain axis, but there is an under-recognized modality in development
in healthcare that takes advantage of the body’s innate electrical systems that
could play a substantial role over the next two decades of progress:
bioelectronics.