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Biomedical Engineering
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- How did Genentech's early work lead to the production of human insulin and growth hormone soon after?
- How did a cold call from Robert Swanson to Herbert Boyer in 1976 lead to the founding of Genentech?
- How did researchers isolate which parts of the sound caused the strongest discomfort?
- How did the 1906 earthquake influence later building codes and civil engineering practices?
- How did the surface type — carpet, concrete, or grass — affect the forces involved?
- How do the hips and the hoop exchange momentum to keep the hoop spinning?
- How does a moose's body mass distribution change where the impact lands on a vehicle compared to a car-to-car crash?
- How does temperature affect the speed of sound traveling through cheese?
- How does the AbioCor artificial heart deliver power to the body without any tubes breaking the skin?
- How have engineers applied the woodpecker's skull design to human technology?
- What does the phrase 'force is force' concede about the underlying physics of the device?
- What equation did Meyer-Rochow and Gal use to calculate defecation pressure, and what pressures did they find?
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- What factors did Kumar and Mittal's engineering analysis identify as affecting how shoe odours spread on a shoe rack?
- What forces did the researchers measure when studying how sheep are moved across a shearing shed floor?
- What industry grew out of the 1973 Boyer-Cohen experiment, and what was its first major medical product?
- What is a limit cycle attractor, and how does it describe hula hoop motion?
- What is the intended clinical benefit of continuous, passive digestive health monitoring?
- What practical application does this locust neuron research have for robotics and vehicle design?
- What technique did Heeremans develop to sort intoxicated worms from control worms at scale?
- Who were the three men credited with the origin of Murphy's Law, and what was each one's role?
- Why did the researchers rely on modelling rather than an actual experiment on the Moon?
- Why is it physically impossible for a human to run across water on Earth?
- Why should a pregnant person's centre of mass, by simple leverage, be expected to pitch them forward?
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- Boyer-Cohen gene cloning in bacteria demonstrated
- First self-contained artificial heart implanted
- Genentech founded — first genetic-engineering company
- Ig Nobel Prize in Acoustics
- Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Ig Nobel Prize in Engineering
- Ig Nobel Prize in Engineering Design
- Ig Nobel Prize in Fluid Dynamics
- Ig Nobel Prize in Managed Health Care
- Ig Nobel Prize in Ornithology
- Ig Nobel Prize in Peace