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Briefs: Materials
R&D: Wearables
Features: Electronics & Computers
Incubators, used for cell and tissue cultivation in hospital and laboratory settings, grow and maintain cell and tissue samples under controlled conditions for hours, weeks, or even months. They create...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
R&D: Materials
An alternative adhesive has been developed that adapts to suit a wide range of industrial and medical applications that benefit from sticky materials. The key ingredient is carbon dioxide. About...
Briefs: Regulations/Standards
In 2018, an update on regulations for respiratory medical devices meant that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from the devices...
Briefs: Medical
Researchers at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have 3D printed an all-liquid device that, with the click of a button, can be repeatedly reconfigured on demand to...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The Polymerization Process Research Group of the Polymat Institute of the UPV/EHU–University of the Basque Country has efficiently encapsulated semiconductor nanocrystals...
Briefs: Medical
Bacterial cellulose (BC) nanofibers are promising building blocks for the development of sustainable materials with the potential to outperform conventional...
Briefs: Medical
Since the 1960s, researchers have been interested in the possibility of treating type 1 diabetes by transplanting islet cells — the pancreatic cells that are responsible for...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Like sandblasting at the nanometer scale, focused beams of ions ablate hard materials to form intricate three-dimensional patterns. The beams can create tiny features in the...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The concept for a new automated visual inspection system that uses robotics to manipulate metallic components is being tested at the University of Sheffield’s Advanced...
Technology Leaders: Regulations/Standards
Traditionally, toxicologists and biocompatibility experts considered the materials in breathing gas pathways as external communicating devices and evaluated...
Features: Medical
Many medical applications require heat for optimal performance. For patient comfort, effective treatment, and a variety of diagnostic processes, equipment and fluids...
Features: Medical
Industrial manufacturing of medical products presents distinct challenges. This is particularly true for manufacturing of injectable drug products, which requires minimizing contamination to...
Global Innovations: Medical
London, UK
www.ucl.ac.uk
A new drug-delivery system that autonomously navigates the body using its own glucose molecules has been developed and...
Technology Leaders: Medical
Surface mount solid tantalum capacitors are a well-established technology and have been broadly employed in medical devices for decades. There are many reasons to choose tantalum,...
Global Innovations: Medical
Haifa, Israel
www.technion.ac.il
Researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Germany have demonstrated for the...
Briefs: Materials
For the millions of people every year who have or need medical devices implanted, a new advancement in 3D printing technology developed at the University of Florida promises...
Features: Medical
Successfully using liquid silicone rubber (LSR) and other advanced silicone technologies in medical devices often depends upon access to a deep and broad repository of research...
Briefs: Materials
Brigham Young University researchers have developed glass technology that could add a new level of flexibility to the microscopic world of medical devices.
Features: Nanotechnology
The global biophotonics market is estimated to reach $91.31 billion by 2024, according to a report by Grand View Research, San Francisco, CA. The developments in optical...
Briefs: Medical
The most complex crystal designed and built from nanoparticles has been reported by researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. The work demonstrates that...
Briefs: Medical
The nanoscale is creating a massive paradigm shift. Referring to structures of between 1 and 100 nm, the nanoscale is marked as the point where the properties of a material...
Briefs: Medical
In regenerative medicine, the ideal repair material would offer properties that seem impossibly contradictory. It must be rigid and robust enough to be manipulated...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Three-dimensional printing technology makes it possible to rapidly manufacture objects by depositing layer upon layer of polymers in a precisely determined pattern. Once these objects are...
Briefs: Medical
Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a tiny whirlpool that can concentrate nanoparticles using nothing but sound. The innovation could gather proteins and...
Briefs: Medical
Scientists have developed a new diagnostic test for cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder...
Briefs: Imaging
MIT researchers have developed a technique for recovering visual information from light that has scattered because of interactions with the environment — such as passing through human...
Top Stories
Briefs: Wearables

Designing Feature-Rich Wearable Health and Fitness Devices
INSIDER: Wearables

Self-Powered Ingestible Sensor Opens New Avenues for Gut Research
Briefs: Medical

Extrusion Process Enables Synthetic Material Growth
Features: Medical

Enabling a Diabetic to Run the World Marathon Challenge
INSIDER: Wearables

COVID-19 Smart Patch Vaccine Measures Effectiveness
Features: Medical

Ask the Expert
Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components

Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.
Webcasts
Webinars: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Developing the Ultimate Medical Sensor Technology
On-Demand Webinars: Medical

Precision Pulsed High Voltage: Electroporation Enabling Medical and Life...
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Product Development Lifecycle Management: Optimizing Quality, Cost, and Speed...
Webinars: Materials

Medical Device Biofilms: Slimy, Sticky, Stubborn, and Serious
On-Demand Webinars: Medical

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Making Medical Devices Smarter
On-Demand Webinars: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Inside Story
Rapid Precision Prototyping Program Speeds Medtech Product Development
Rapid prototyping technologies play an important role in supporting new product development (NPD) by companies that are working to bring novel and innovative products to market. But in advanced industries where products often make use of multiple technologies, and where meeting a part’s exacting tolerances is essential, speed without precision is rarely enough. In such advanced manufacturing—including the medical device and surgical robotics industries — the ability to produce high-precision prototypes early in the development cycle can be critical for meeting design expectations and bringing finished products to market efficiently.
Trending Stories
Technology Leaders: Regulations/Standards

First, Do No Harm: Changing Strategies to Prove Your Medical Device Is Safe