Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

It's a very complicated process requiring precision from design and engineering to manufacture and installation, and there's a lot of room for problems.

We used clay from here in New Mexico and used engineering principals to design a mug that could survive a high drop.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

We haven't been able to transform it into a discipline where you can simply and predictably engineer biological systems. It means the complexity of things we can make and can afford to make are quite limited.

They aren't going to put Kodak out of business any time soon,