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The Scientists and Their Science 1

ngineers design and make things. Medical professionals help people who are sick or injured. When the skills from both of those fields come together, the result is biomedical engineering. Biomedical engineers develop machines and techniques that help with human health. In fact, BME has been around as long as people have. Humans have always figured out ways to fix things that were broken with their bodies,

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND diagnostics  methods used to determine what is medically wrong with a patient genes  information stored in cells that determines a person’s physical characteristics sensors  things that detect and gather information vaccine  a method of protecting someone against a disease, delivering medicine using an injection with a needle

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