BMC Biomedical Engineering: the BMC series expands into engineering!

I am delighted to announce that BMC Biomedical Engineering, a new open access, peer-reviewed journal is now open for submissions and with it the BMC series enters for the first time a new subject area: engineering. This is the first of two newly launched journals in the BMC series. Editor Harriet Manning discusses the launch of BMC Chemical Engineering in her blog post. 2018 has been declared as the “Year of Engineering” by the UK government, an initiative that has seen wide support by hundreds of national and international organisations. We see no better time to expand our offering to this diverse and crucial community and help in supporting its impact on the world’s most pressing matters, including economic growth, policy, climate change, health, food and sustainability. Biomedical engineering is a rapidly growing field that creates lasting impact on global health and society. It has existed for many centuries, in a mixture of forms, but it wasn’t until the twentieth century when major discoveries in the physical sciences enabled it to evolve exponentially. The invention of the electrocardiograph by William Einthoven (Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1924) in the start of the century changed the course of the diagnosis and treatment for the cardiovascular system. The developments of x-ray imaging, the electron microscope and the concept of artificial organs are only a few technological innovations that revolutionised medicine in the mid to late 20th century. Even the Human ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Medicine BMC Biomedical Engineering BMC Series Source Type: blogs