Biologically Inspired Engineering

In the end organic as well as anorganic matter is made from the same building blocks. The only difference is how the atoms are arranged.Donald Ingber in The Scientific American

And the reason that I’m here today (in terms of serendipity) is that I saw [tensegrity structures] for the first time when I was an undergraduate at Yale in a sculpture class that I just happened to take the same week that I learned to culture cells. And that, as they say, is the beginning of the rest of my life.Donald Ingber - Serendipitous Science Lecture (PopTech)