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Biomedical engineering is growing rapidly, but will it help patients?
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It is no surprise that the latest biomedical-engineering solutions are becoming central to health care. Data from the Nature Index certainly suggest research in this area is growing: the number of articles in the database related to biomedical engineering grew 70% from 2021 to 2025.
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