What is the difference between Biomedical and Biotechnology? Which one should I go for and why?

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Dr  Swastik Sahu
8 years ago
Biomedical engineering deals with all the equipment and technology involved in the medical (healthcare) sector. This means you study about equipment like imaging (X-ray, CT, MRI, etc.), intensive care (ventilators, patient monitors, etc.), diagnostic (Pathological test machines), also some therapeut

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M
3 years ago
The study of the human body for illness prevention and treatment is known as biomedical Science. The "what, " "how, " and "why" of the human body are examined in this discipline. Contrarily, biotechnology is the genetic modification of living things to produce new goods and technologies. If biotechn

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G
3 years ago
The two subject areas do share some similarities and draw from related core fields, but there are also very distinct differences between them. While biotechnology is primarily an applied biological Science that heavily utilizes Chemistry biomedical engineering draws on engineering principles related

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MALLIKARJUNASWAMY S
6 years ago
Biotechnology is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make useful products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use. Biomedical broadly refers to the application

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Akhil Chandra
8 years ago
Hey, I am from biotechnology engineering basically. You should know the difference between them which is as follows: Biomedical engineering (BME) is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g. diagnostic or therapeutic). Biot

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A
8 years ago
Let's see the difference between two courses name biomedical and biotechnology: Biomedical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g. diagnostic or therapeutic). This field seeks to close the gap between enginee

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Aditya Doiphode
8 years ago
Biotechnology: The areas of study and subjects covered under this are mainly molecular cell biology, bioinformatics, biochemistry, systems biology and statistics which introduce students to the fundamental concepts of modern biology, including cell biology, experimental techniques and data handling,

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P
8 years ago
Biotechnology is a much more and complex discipline which includes technological application using biological systems, living organisms, their derivatives to make or modify products. Production of disease resistant enhance crops, gene therapy, genetic screening and enzymes for industrial catalyst ar

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M
8 years ago
Hi , That is a very interesting question. To make it understand, I will divide the two terms into simpler terms 1. Biotechnology which is made up of biology and technology which means the technology which can be applied to the biological problems. Biotechnology is all about the alterations in the m

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