Custom, Innovative Tubing for Medical Devices

Advanced manufacturing processes — including custom laser machining, etching, tipping, reflowing, bonding, and composite constructions — deliver high-performance medical tubing from materials such as polyimide, PTFE, Nylon, Pebax®, and polyurethane, allowing for tighter extruded tolerances. Watch how MicroLumen engineers develop tubing that ensures precision and reliability in medical device applications.

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Carnegie Mellon + Mayo Clinic = Transforming Transplant Initiative

Carnegie Mellon University and the Mayo Clinic have teamed up in the Transforming Transplant Initiative. The project seeks to overcome the shortcomings of transplantation, the greatest of which is the need for more organs. Watch this video to learn more about how nine teams are working toward advancements on different projects across multiple organs.

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3D Printing Breakthrough Could Enable Personalized Prosthetic Devices

A team of researchers at Loughborough University has pioneered a fully digital design-to-manufacturing process that has the potential to revolutionize lower limb socket production. The creation of a lower limb socket has traditionally taken around three-to-six weeks. Watch this video to see how it’s accomplished faster.

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A 3D Printer that Can Watch Itself 3D Print

Researchers from MIT have developed a new 3D inkjet printing system that works with a much wider range of materials. The printer utilizes computer vision to automatically scan the 3D printing surface and adjust the amount of resin each nozzle deposits in real-time to ensure no areas have too much or too little material.

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