AT THE FLUENT CFD SUMMIT in June, 2006, a daylong Healthcare Symposium was held that drew more than 60 researchers from industry, academia, and federal regulatory agencies. The presentations during the symposium were focused on the use of computational modeling in the biomedical and biotechnology fields. The 2006 Fluent News Biomedical Supplement features summaries from the Symposium and from other researchers working in this exciting field of study. Biomedical applications are the focus of this issue; biotechnology stories are planned for publication in 2007.