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Cellular Engineering involves the application of engineering principles to problems in cellular and molecular biology, particularly as they relate to human health. The goal of this track is to equip students with the quantitative tools necessary to understand, manipulate, and control cellular and sub-cellular processes for a range of biomedical applications, including those related to stem cells, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine.Cellular engineering is a new field that addresses issues related to understanding and manipulating cell structure-function relationships. This course is intended to be a bridge between cell biologists and engineers, to understand quantitatively cell biological aspects. Cellular engineering is intrinsically connected to the new field of tissue engineering. As we embark on approaches to engineer new tissues that have always been considered too difficult for intervention, the use of cells takes an almost central role. For example, if we want to generate the liver, we must first understand what hepatocytes like and how we can modulate their function. In numerous medical applications, we wish to make skeletal tissues regenerate.