Bioengineering

Digital twins and the era of personalised medicine -  Professor Merryn Tawhai, the director of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, on reimagining healthcare with virtual doubles.  Audio

They will look like fish, swim like fish and even sense like fish. Liz Garton meets a research team designing robofish and smart wetsuits to monitor the state of our oceans.  Audio

Stories about the potential of bioengineering to transform health care. A new tracheostomy kit design that has halved the time for emergency operations and 3D bioprinting of tissues to help healing. Video, Audio

Bioengineer Thor Besier's high tech medical imaging research aims to find new ways to help people with movement and mobility problems and disorders. He's a associate professor at the University of… Audio

Our heart's electrical system is an intricate network but anything that throws it out of whack can cause conditions such as cardiac arrhythmia. But what about the effect of electrical impulses in the… Audio

Trevor the caterpillar and Julie the dragonfly are soft robots that can walk and flap using electricity that powers artificial muscles, without a printed circuit board in sight. Video, Audio

Jeff Karp is a bioengineer looking to nature for inspiration in developing new medical treatments. Audio

Smart socks and an ankle bracelet that uses small vibration motors might help us to retrain how we walk and stave off joint surgery Audio