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Features: Medical
Additive Manufacturing: New Frontiers for Production and Validation
Over the last few decades, additive manufacturing (AM)/ 3D printing has fundamentally changed the way that manufacturers approach product development. Industry is now...
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Briefs: Medical
Immersive Mixed Reality: Moving Automation Technologies to the Cloud
See how immersive mixed reality has helped medtech manufacturers maintain factory output despite the challenges posed by COVID-19.
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Features: AR/AI
The Digital Future of Medical Device Development
Digital design tools — computer modeling and realistic simulation — have emerged as key contributors to success in medical device product design and manufacturing, and increasingly in the...
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Makerspace: Rapid Prototyping Facility Offers Hands-On Learning
The New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Newark College of Engineering has opened a training-focused, rapid prototyping facility that is central to both the university’s...
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Briefs: Medical
Nonprofit Pushes Design Limits to Develop Life-Saving Technology for Underprivileged Communities
Nearly four million infants in developing countries die each year within a month of birth due to complications of prematurity, low birth weight,...
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Features: Medical
Polycarbonates Play Pivotal Role in Growing Disposable Medical Device Market
The definition of a disposable device can vary. At one end of the spectrum are completely disposable, single-use devices that are designed for use on one patient...
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Applications: Medical
Advancing Ablation Technology Using Simulation Science
Ablation, or the use of high-frequency electromagnetic (EM) energy to destroy soft-tissue tumors, has been in existence for a few decades, but in recent years its underlying technology has...
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
CAM Programming vs. Manual Programming in Medical Machining
The manufacture of medical devices involves some of the most sophisticated machining processes found in industry today. From a machining perspective, the machine tools that make up the...
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Technology Leaders: Connectivity
ISO 80369 Standards for Small Bore Connectors Move Closer to Implementation
After a 20-year effort to establish standards which would minimize the risk of medical misconnections, the pending release of the ISO 80369 series of standards has now...
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Briefs: Medical
Toolkit for Soft Robotics Aids Designers
A new resource created by researchers from several Harvard University labs in collaboration with Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, provides both experienced and novice researchers with the intellectual...
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R&D: Medical
Creating 3D Shapes Using Hand Gestures
A new design tool that can interpret hand gestures, enables designers at Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, to create and modify three-dimensional shapes using only their hands as a "natural user...
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Applications: Imaging
Physician Uses Multiphysics Simulation to Improve Dialyzer Designs
Steven Conrad, MD, PhD, an emergency and critical care physician at Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, is not your typical physician. When he’s not...
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Using CT Scanning to Test/Inspect Medical Devices in the Design or Production Phase
The rapid advance of medical technology has created a growing need for ever more precise technologies to measure and inspect medical components. One of the most...
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Global Innovations: Photonics/Optics
Laser Direct Writing Technique May Repair Damaged Nerves
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom www.shef.ac.uk Injuries to the peripheral nervous system (PNS) are extremely common and affect 1 in 1000 individuals every year. Axon...
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Briefs: Medical
Benefits of a Fully Digital Comparator for Inspection of Orthopedic Implants
Manufacturers of orthopedic implants take great care to ensure that their products are of the highest quality. One way they do this is by performing numerous...
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Briefs: Software
More-Realistic Digital Modeling of a Human Body
A MATLAB computer program has been written to enable improved (relative to an older program) modeling of a human body for purposes of designing space suits and other hardware with which an astronaut must interact. The older program implements a kinematic model based on traditional anthropometric...

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INSIDER: Materials

Hydrogels: The Future of Bone Implants

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INSIDER: Medical

Adaptable Drug-Delivery Platform Accelerates Next-Gen Medicine

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Briefs: Wearables

Sweat-Powered Sticker Turns Drinking Cup Into a Health Sensor

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Features: Medical

Inside the OEM: Intuitive’s Next Chapter — Scaling Robotics, Data, and...

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Briefs: Medical

AI-Generated Sensors Open New Paths for Early Cancer Detection

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Features: Medical

A Material Difference: Engineering Smaller Medical Devices at the...

Ask the Expert

Ralph Bright on the Power of Power Cords
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Understanding power system components and how to connect them correctly is critical to meeting regulatory requirements and designing successful electrical products for worldwide markets. Interpower’s Ralph Bright defines these requirements and explains how to know which cord to select for your application.

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Editorial Webinars: Medical

Next-Generation Materials for Medical Devices: From Smart Polymers to...

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Podcasts: Medical

How Tissue-Based Approaches Are Enabling Long-Term Implants

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Podcasts: Medical

Training the Future of AI-Powered Surgery

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Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control

Making Human-Centered Robotics Work in the Real World

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Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control

The Hidden Nervous System of Surgical Robotics: Power, Data & Sensing Behind...

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Podcasts: Medical

Surgical & Assistive Robotics: Redefining Human Capability

Inside Story

Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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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.

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