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Develop Living Biomedical Systems

Create biomedical devices and treatments that are themselves living organisms designed specifically for medical applications. Living biomedical systems would grow, adapt, and evolve to optimize their medical function, repair themselves when damaged, and improve their performance over time. The challenge involves engineering living organisms for specific medical functions, ensuring safety and control of living medical systems, and creating living systems that integrate perfectly with human biology. Applications include living drug factories that produce personalized medications inside the body, living diagnostic systems that monitor health continuously, and living prosthetics that grow and adapt with the user. Success would create medical systems with unprecedented adaptability and integration, enable personalized medicine that adapts continuously to patient needs, and provide medical treatments that improve themselves over time.

Engineering, Core Engineering, Biomedical Engineering