Building multi-cellular biological machines

Biological machines can be used to detect the harmful toxins in the environment and to develop new therapies with better accuracy than today's technology. Embryonic stem cell based therapies hold great promise for directly curing or being used to discover new drugs for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, spinal cord injury, ALS, SMA and other devastating diseases. UGA animal and dairy scientists are working on a joint mission with MIT, Georgia Tech and the University of Illinois to create a new scientific discipline for building living, multi-cellular machines that solve real world problems in health, security, and the environment. This is an interdisciplinary biology, engineering, ethics and mathematical project that is training the next generation of scientists while developing new bio machine technologies to help society.