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The new engineers - STAR SCIENCE By Eduardo A. Padlan, PhD

When we talk of engineers, what immediately come to mind are machines, bridges, buildings, and other structures. Engineers design and assemble structures for a specific purpose. There are now new engineers who also develop structures for a specific purpose, but this time the structures are molecules and other biological entities, and the purpose is biological. They are the protein engineers, the genetic engineers, and other biological engineers. Here are some examples of their work.

Biological Structures: A course for all scientists and engineers even philosophers - STAR SCIENCE By Gisela P. Padilla-Concepcion, PhD and Eduardo A. Padlan, PhD

We offer a course at the Marine Science Institute in UP Diliman called “Biological Structures.” The topics we cover range from biological molecules (small and large), to cells, to organ systems, to whole organisms, to populations and ecosystems. One of the recurring fundamental questions we ask is — are there underlying principles, with fine similarities and differences, at these different levels of biological structure?

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