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Products: Materials
Packaging System
CleanCut Technologies, Anaheim, CA, has added a new packaging system to the company's portfolio of packaging products. The Vault packaging system is designed as an alternative to pouch-style packaging...
Briefs: Medical
Photon counting detectors with high spatiotemporal resolution are key tools of imaging techniques where picosecond timing and micrometer position imaging are required, such as time...
Applications: Design
To reduce total cost of care, healthcare providers are increasingly turning toward home and ambulatory infusion pumps to free the patient from the hospital...
Briefs: Medical
The WHO reports an estimated 429,000 malaria deaths each year. The disease mostly affects tropical and sub-tropical regions and in particular the African continent. The Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
In tests, a swarm of robots measuring a few millionths of a meter long — about the size of a blood cell — were guided magnetically to sites in the stomach of rats. The robots were manufactured by...
Features: Medical
There has been a profound shift is taking place in the medical industry of more minimally invasive, quicker, and more-effective procedures....
Briefs: Medical
The field of soft robotics has made leaps and bounds over the last decade as researchers worldwide have experimented with different materials and designs to allow once rigid, jerky machines to...
Global Innovations: Medical
École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneLausanne, Switzerlandhttps://actu.epfl.ch
Neurologists often use electrical impulses to stimulate and read brain signals. But the...
Features: Packaging & Sterilization
When engineers develop orthopedic surgical devices, they must often think beyond the design of the device, and find a way to make its installation easier, safer, and more accurate. Sometimes...
Features: Medical
Small, intelligent medical devices worn on the body and/or kept in the home — in addition to those used in hospital networks — are not just saving lives. They are...
Briefs: Materials
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a fully functioning artificial human heart muscle large enough to patch over damage typically seen in patients who have suffered...
Technology Leaders: Electronics & Computers
Handheld medical devices must perform across a wide range of device specifications and end-user environmental conditions. Mechanical and signal integrity...
From the Editor: Medical
The integration of robotics into medical devices has seen explosive growth in recent years with new applications in areas such as prosthetics and rehabilitation,...
R&D: Medical
Treatment for certain diabetes cases involves constant monitoring of blood-glucose levels and daily insulin shots. Scientists from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC), North...
R&D: Medical
Researchers have demonstrated how brain activity is used to identify different terrains — level ground and stairs, for example — a key step in developing prosthetics that allow the user’s...
R&D: Medical
By combining the use of drug-carrying nanoparticles with an organ-preserving machine, researchers have developed a procedure that could help improve long-term outcomes for...
R&D: Medical
Plasmonic nanovesicles can navigate the bloodstream, and, when hit with a quick pulse of laser light, change shape to release their contents. It can then exit the body, leaving only the desired...
R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
An optical whispering gallery mode resonator can spin light around the circumference of a tiny sphere millions of times, creating an ultrasensitive microchip-based sensor for multiple...
R&D: Medical
Soft robotic actuators have recently emerged as an attractive alternative to more rigid components that have conventionally been used in biomedical devices. However, researchers...
R&D: Medical
A newly engineered material could become the first suture-less sealant for wound closure. In laboratory tests of the material, known as a MeTro sealant, the team demonstrated...
News: Medical
West-Tech Materials Expands to Support Medical Market
West-Tech Materials has expanded its sales engineering staff in both northern and southern California to support the medical device market. The company, which is celebrating its 26th anniversary, provides product and technology solutions to the electronics and medical device markets in the...
News: Medical
Tegra Medical Expands Sales Operations to Europe
Tegra Medical, an end-to-end contract manufacturer of medical devices, has established a European sales presence in Sheffield, UK, and has hired a business development manager to oversee European sales.
News: Medical
Jenoptik Establishes Application Center in Silicon Valley
Jenoptik, Fremont, CA, which develops optical and micro optical systems and precision components for healthcare, has opened a west coast office to be closer to customers and to leverage growth in the United States. The new office, strategically located in Fremont in the Silicon Valley...
News: Medical
UK Trials Begin for Optogenetics Combined with a Stimulation Device
GenSight Biologics, a Paris-based biopharma company focused on discovering and developing innovative gene therapies for retinal neurodegenerative diseases and central nervous system disorders, will begin clinical trials of its GS030 in patients with Retinitis pigmentosa (RP). GS030...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Amada Miyachi America Expands Technical Center
Amada Miyachi America, Monrovia, CA, has expanded and enhanced its Detroit technical center. The updated facility has 5,500 square feet of laboratory space devoted to application development services for welding, marking, ablation, scribing, and texturing of metals and plastics. Also on site is an...
INSIDER: Medical
A new wearable technology would enable sick babies to be monitored remotely. And parents at home, concerned about the risk of cot death, could keep track of their new babies’ heart and breathing rates with...
INSIDER: Medical
Findings from the first human trials of a breakthrough gas-sensing swallowable capsule could revolutionize the way that gut disorders and diseases are prevented and diagnosed.
INSIDER: Medical
A research team has developed a device that could revolutionize management of Type 1 diabetes. In Type 1 diabetes, insulin-producing pancreatic cell clusters (islets) are...
INSIDER: Medical
Researchers have developed a new class of soft, electrically activated devices capable of mimicking the expansion and contraction of natural muscles. These devices, which can be constructed...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Creators of a new, M&M-sized wearable device aim to bring UV detection to users’ fingertips – or more precisely, fingernails.
News: Medical
Finance Committee Advances Nomination of Alex Azar to Head HHS
The Senate Finance Committee has advanced the nomination of Alex Azar to serve as the Department of Health And Human Services (HHS) Secretary by a vote of 15 to 12.
News: Design
3D Systems and Stryker Partner to Advance Personalized Surgery
3D Systems and Stryker have announced an exclusive distribution partnership for VSP® (Virtual Surgical Planning) and anatomical models for the craniomaxillofacial specialty. According to the companies, the partnership will drive the availability of personalized surgical planning and...
News: Medical
Secant Group Develops the First Synthetic Regenerative Cardiovascular Graft
Secant Group, in partnership with its sister company SanaVita Medical, has developed what it calls "game-changing technology" to advance cardiovascular regenerative medicine with the development of a synthetic, small bore, vessel that encourages endogenous regeneration and...
INSIDER: Medical
Researchers have developed a game-changing technology to advance cardiovascular regenerative medicine with the development of a synthetic, small-bore, vessel that...
INSIDER: Medical
Researchers have created a revolutionary prototype robotic implant that encourages tissue growth in babies.
INSIDER: Medical
A biodegradable pressure sensor could help doctors monitor chronic lung disease, swelling of the brain, and other medical conditions before dissolving harmlessly in a patient’s body.
INSIDER: Medical
A brain-machine interface that combines brain stimulation with a robotic device controlling hand movement increases the output of pathways connecting the brain and spinal cord, according...
News: Robotics, Automation & Control
The surgical robotics market will experience an impressive 17 percent CAGR, from US $3.4 billion in 2016 to US $8.8 billion in 2022. According to market research firm Yole...
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INSIDER: Medical
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From the Editor: Medical
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Ask the Expert
John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.
Webcasts
Podcasts: Medical
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Design
Developing Sustainable Drug-Delivery Devices
Podcasts: Design
Smarter Pathways for Precision Drug Delivery in Cancer Care
On-Demand Webinars: Medical
Understanding Testing and Compliance Requirements for Wireless Medical Devices
Podcasts: AR/AI
Personalized Medicine and Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.
