http://imechanica.org/taxonomy/term/439 Comments for "biomaterials" en http://imechanica.org/node/3388#comment-8162 <p> dear Dean and Michelle </p> <p> &nbsp; a perhaps unquestionably really new and high impact initiative is rather this:&nbsp; maybe Dean and Elsevier want to cover the news in their journal too? </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> <p> <a href="http://imechanica.org/node/3494">Google launches HealthMap and PlosMedicine covers the launch</a> </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> <p> Regards, </p> <p> michele ciavarella<br /> <a href="http://www.micheleciavarella.it" title="www.micheleciavarella.it">www.micheleciavarella.it</a> </p> <br class="clear" /> Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:50:46 -0400 Mike Ciavarella comment 8162 at http://imechanica.org http://imechanica.org/node/3388#comment-7902 <p>Dean -- I am pleased to see the new Journal doing well, but I have to take issue with the mention of this &quot;exciting new scientific field.&quot;&nbsp; Yes the breadth of current biomechanics is greater than that of the past, and yes it is growing quickly and incorporating people from many different backgrounds than it did previously.&nbsp; But the establishment of the field falls firmly with Fung&#39;s work in the 1960s and continued strongly through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s with pioneers like Mow, Woo, An and many others.&nbsp;</p> <br class="clear" /> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:01:01 -0400 MichelleLOyen comment 7902 at http://imechanica.org