We do a lot of work in biomedical fields.

When I travel around, I ask my colleagues in biomedical research

And this is the biggest biomedical enterprise research in the world.

Luckily for us, we live in an era of breathtaking biomedical advances.

For three times, I applied to biomedical science, to be a doctor.

In the hospital and in the entire region there's not a single biomedical engineer.

I am 26 years old and I am a PhD in Biomedical Sciences in the UNAM.

We scraped like 1,000 studies from PubMed, the biomedical database, and we compiled them and graded them all.

And it tells you how biomedical research can really change the picture for millions and millions of people.

And we are starting a biomedical engineering program, so that we will train people locally, who can repair that equipment.

For example, at the University of Minnesota, there's a biomedical engineer named David Odde, and he works with dancers to study how cells move.

Swedish firm Uppsala Biomedical, more seriously, makes a mobile phone add on that can process blood tests in the field, uploading the data, displaying the results.

And the good news has to do with what we know based on biomedical research that actually has changed the outcomes for many very serious diseases.

And when it does, it needs a team of biomedical engineers who understand its complexities, can fix it, can source the parts and keep it saving lives.

So let's start with some good news, and the good news has to do with what do we know based on biomedical research that actually has changed the outcomes for many very serious diseases?

(Applause) About a year and a half ago we were asked to design an installation in the museum this is a new wing of the Science Museum in London, and it's primarily about digital and biomedical issues.

So here we were, a nuclear physicist, an internist, soon joined by Carrie Hruska, a biomedical engineer, and two radiologists, and we were trying to take on the entrenched world of mammography with a machine that was held together by duct tape.

But, the whole biomedical research enterprise has been operating for decades under the assumption that the Y chromosome is operating only within the cells of the reproductive tract or, to frame it another way, that the Y chromosome matters only in our nether parts.

And I wound up getting involved with the space community, really involved with NASA, sitting on the NASA advisory board, planning actual space missions, going to Russia, going through the pre cosmonaut biomedical protocols, and all these sorts of things, to actually go and fly to the international space station with our 3D camera systems.

And the strength, extensibility and toughness of spider silks combined with the fact that silks do not elicit an immune response, have attracted a lot of interest in the use of spider silks in biomedical applications, for example, as a component of artificial tendons, for serving as guides to regrow nerves, and for scaffolds for tissue growth.

And, as an extension, the notion has been held firm throughout the biomedical research enterprise for decades, that all the differences between the sexes outside the reproductive tract, including differences in disease susceptibility outside the reproductive tract, the notion has been that all such differences must stem from sex hormones that are produced by the reproductive organs.

I think that Torajans socially recognize and culturally express what many of us feel to be true despite the widespread acceptance of the biomedical definition of death, and that is that our relationships with other humans, their impact on our social reality, doesn't cease with the termination of the physical processes of the body, that there's a period of transition as the relationship between the living and the dead is transformed but not ended.