Exhibitor Presentation: Avient Expands Portfolio of Healthcare Material Solutions

Avient Corporation, an innovator of materials solutions, returns to MD&M West this week as both an exhibitor and presenter. The company will highlight its...

Product Demonstration: Critical Manufacturing to Showcase AI-ready Manufacturing Operations Platform

Critical Manufacturing will demonstrate how manufacturers can move beyond digital transformation concepts and apply them in real...

Product Demonstration: Indium Corp. to Feature Precision Gold Solder Solutions at MD&M West

Indium Corporation is featuring its high-reliability AuLTRA® MediPro gold solder solutions at MD&M West. The MediPro is a family of...

MD&M West Keynote: AI Without the Hype: Real Results in Manufacturing

Everyone’s talking about AI. Few are actually producing more units because of it. In her keynote, Guidewheel CEO Lauren Dunford shows how leading manufacturers are...

Customizable Finger Brace for Injury Recovery

Researchers have developed a fully customizable finger brace that can, with the push or flex of a finger, easily switch from stiff to flexible. Along with its versatility, the brace can be 3D...

Wearable Monitors Heart Rate Recovery to Predict Risk

Scientists used a “smart” shirt equipped with an electrocardiogram to track participants’ heart-rate recovery after exercise and developed a tool for analyzing the data to predict...

Stretchable Waveguides Maintain Stable Transmission Even When Bent

Stretchable waveguides maintain efficient, stable signal transmission of surface plasmon polaritons even when bent, twisted, or stretched. These plasmonic waveguides could make...

Terahertz Wave Control for Enhanced Biomedical Technology

A spintronic THz emitter with a microscale stripe pattern enables the modulation of chirality during THz wave generation. Unlike traditional THz sources that rely on external optical...

Under-the-Skin Electrode for Epilepsy Tracking

Researchers have demonstrated that seizures can be tracked in the home environment, giving clinicians access to data that could have a dramatic impact on the way in which epilepsy is treated in...

Printable Nanoparticles Enable Mass Produced Biosensors

Engineers have developed a technique for inkjet printing arrays of special nanoparticles that enables the mass production of long-lasting wearable sweat sensors. These sensors could be...

Technology

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Oxygen Scavenger Doubles Biosensor Performance

Researchers have developed an oxygen scavenger that consumes excess oxygen by converting it into water. Crucially, this alcohol oxidase does not react with the actual target substances —...

Medical Design Briefs and MedAccred Team Up to Support Medical Manufacturing Excellence at MD&M West 2026

Delivering trusted information and connecting engineers, manufacturers, and innovators with the resources they need to bring safer,...

How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery

Wearable drug-delivery systems are improving the quality of life for patients with chronic conditions.

Stryker's Robert Cohen Named Chair of AdvaMed’s Digital Health Tech Division Board of Directors 

Robert Cohen, vice president, innovation and technology, orthopaedic group at Stryker, has been named the next chair of the AdvaMed Digital Health Tech Board of Directors. He succeeds Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, global chief science and technology officer at GE HealthCare, who served as the inaugural chair of the board overseeing the then-newly created division. Read on to learn more.

Product of the Month

See the product of the month: COMSOL's version 6.4 of its COMSOL Multiphysics simulation platform with expanded NVIDIA GPU acceleration for large, coupled models.

Inside the OEM: Medtronic’s Growth and Next Wave of Innovation

When Thierry Piéton stepped into the role of executive vice president and chief financial officer of Medtronic earlier this year, he entered one of the largest and most complex organizations in the medical technology industry. Read on to go inside the OEM.

Microcatheter Delivers Therapies to the Tiniest Blood Vessels

EPFL researchers have invented a remarkably small and ultraflexible neurovascular microcatheter. Powered by blood flow, it can safely navigate the most intricately branched arteries in a matter of seconds. Read on to learn more about it.

Product Focus: Motors/Motion Control

See where the product focus is this month: On Moticont's miniature linear servo motor; PI's expanded PICMA encapsulated piezo stack actuator series; Teknic's precision planetary gearboxes for stepper and servo motor applications; and more.

New Products and Services

See the new products and services, including Syensqo's medical-grade polyphthalamide; non-PFAS low-retention additives for pipette tips from Avient; Binder's expanded M8 connector portfolio; fiber laser marking systems for UDI and traceability codes from FOBA; and more.

Electronic Fiber Provides Stretchable Sensing

EPFL researchers have engineered a fiber-based electronic sensor that remains functional even when stretched to over 10 times its original length. The device holds promise for smart textiles, physical rehabilitation devices, and soft robotics. Read on to learn more about it.

Probe Powerfully Records Neural Circuits During Behavior

A newly developed probe, called Neuropixels Ultra, overcomes some key technical challenges in recording the cell type and activity of thousands of individual cells across many brain regions during a single experiment. Read on to learn more.

Videos of the Month

See the videos of the month, including one on using microfluidic devices for gene therapy; one on resisting antibiotic resistance; one on a humanoid robot surgeon; and more.

Biosensor Could Lead to Breath Test for Lung Cancer

University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed biosensor technology that when combined with artificial intelligence (AI) shows promise for detecting lung cancer through breath analysis. Read on to learn more.

Tiny Neural Implant Wirelessly Tracks Brain

Cornell researchers and collaborators have developed a neural implant so small that it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can wirelessly transmit brain activity data in a living animal for more than a year. Read on to learn more about it.