Innovators in Healthcare: Cancer-Fighting Immunotherapy Wins Grand Prize

The 22nd annual Create the Future Design Contest for engineers, students, and entrepreneurs worldwide, sponsored by COMSOL, Inc., and Mouser Electronics, drew innovative product ideas from engineers and students more than 55 countries from around the world. A competition among the finalists from all categories took place November 15, at which the judges selected NETrolyze: A Novel Immunotherapy for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer as the grand prize winner.

Microdisplay Monitors Brain Activity

A thin film that combines an electrode grid and LEDs can both track and produce a visual representation of the brain’s activity in real time. The device is designed to provide neurosurgeons visual information about a patient’s brain to monitor brain states during surgical interventions to remove brain lesions including tumors and epileptic tissue. Read on to learn more.

Smart Contact Lens for Glaucoma Detection

Researchers have been testing ways to continuously and more comfortably detect these tiny fluctuations in pressure. A prototype smart contact lens measures eye pressure accurately, regardless of temperature. The contact lens wirelessly transmits real-time signals about eye pressure across a wide range of temperatures. Read on to learn more.

2024 Create the Future Design Contest: Medical Grand Prize Winner - NETrolyze

Learn more about the 2024 Create the Future Design Contest Medical Grand Prize Winner: NETrolyze, a Novel Immunotherapy for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

2024 Create the Future Design Contest: Medical Category Winner - A Smart Contact Lens for Glaucoma Management

Learn more about the 2024 Create the Future Design Contest Medical Category Winner: A Smart Contact Lens for Glaucoma Management.

Device Shows Promise for Noninvasive Treatment of Chronic Pain

Researchers at the University of Utah’s John and Marcia Price College of Engineering and Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine have published promising findings about an experimental therapy that has given many participants pain relief after a single treatment session. Read on to learn more.

Inside the OEM: Johnson & Johnson MedTech

In 2024, Johnson & Johnson MedTech faced a few challenges but the medtech giant also saw some great successes. Read on to learn more about Johnson & Johnson.

How to Design Reliable, Low-Power Wearable Medicine Injectors

Advances in IoT and electronic technology are enabling more personalized, continuous medical care. People with medical conditions that require a high degree of monitoring and continuous medication infusion can now take advantage of wearable medicine injection devices to treat their problems. Read on to learn more.

MEDevice Silicon Valley, an MD&M Event

MEDevice Silicon Valley — formerly BIOMEDevice Silicon Valley — is the launching pad for tomorrow’s groundbreaking medical devices. At MEDevice Silicon Valley, your medical device projects in development can make the leap to the real world with cutting-edge components, materials, cybersecurity innovations, 3D printing technologies, and more from leading and disruptive new suppliers on the scene — all on display for hands-on discovery. Read on to learn more about it.

Exploring Electrosurgery: Current Trends and Challenges

Electrosurgery continues to evolve, driven by advancements in technology and a growing demand for minimally invasive surgical techniques. Pulsed field ablation represents a cutting-edge development in the field, offering a novel approach to tissue ablation with the potential to revolutionize the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and other clinical conditions. As research and innovation in electrosurgery progress, the future holds promise for further improving patient outcomes and advancing the practice of medicine. Read on to learn more.

Twisted Nanotubes Power Sensors

Researchers have shown that twisted carbon nanotubes can store three times more energy per unit mass than advanced lithium-ion batteries. The finding may advance carbon nanotubes as a promising solution for storing energy in devices that need to be lightweight, compact, and safe, such as medical implants and sensors. Read on to learn more.

Hydrogel Implant Treats Endometriosis

Researchers have now developed the first hydrogel implant designed for use in fallopian tubes. This innovation performs two functions: one is to act as a contraceptive, the other is to prevent the recipient from developing endometriosis in the first place or to halt the spread if they do. Read on to learn more.

3D Printed Active Fabric

Scientists have developed an innovative wearable fabric that is flexible but can stiffen on demand. Developed through a combination of geometric design, 3D printing, and robotic control, the new technology, RoboFabric, can quickly be made into medical devices or soft robotics. Read on to learn more about it.

Bioink Mimics Human Skin

A new bioink has been designed for engineering human skin constructs using norbornene-pullulan-based hydrogels. The researchers introduced a novel photocrosslinkable bioink designed for engineering human skin constructs, based on thiol-norbornene-pullulan (N-PLN) formulations combined with various crosslinkers. Read on to learn more.

Device Strengthens Rotator Cuff Repair

Researchers focused on the development and regeneration of the tendon-to-bone attachment, particularly for advancing tendon-to-bone repair, necessary for rotator cuff repair, and anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. The researchers have developed a python-tooth-inspired device as a supplement to current rotator cuff suture repair and found that it nearly doubled repair strength. Read on to learn more.

Finger Pouch Actuator Improves Rehab Gloves

Researchers have succeeded in adding finger straightening or extension to soft rehabilitation gloves through a novel foldable pouch actuator (FPA) without compromising the already existing functionality of finger bending or flexion. Read on to learn more about it.

How Printed Electronics Are Transforming Healthcare

The convergence of healthcare and technology is reshaping patient care, and printed electronics are pivotal in this transformation. Printed electronics offer promising solutions, enabling real-time monitoring and proactive patient management for improved outcomes. Read on to learn more.

A Band-Aid for the Heart? New 3D Printing Method Makes This, and Much More, Possible

In the quest to develop lifelike materials to replace and repair human body parts, scientists face a formidable challenge: Real tissues are often both strong and stretchable and vary in shape and size. A CU Boulder-led team has taken a critical step toward cracking that code. They’ve developed a new way to 3D print material that is at once elastic enough to withstand a heart’s persistent beating, tough enough to endure the crushing load placed on joints, and easily shapable to fit a patient’s unique defects. Read on to learn more.

Rapid Test Detects Dopamine

UCF researchers, led by UCF Nano-Science Technology Center professor Debashis Chanda, have developed an integrated optical sensor capable of detecting dopamine directly from an unprocessed blood sample. This sensor may serve as a low-cost and efficient screening tool for various neurological conditions and cancers, ultimately providing better outcomes for patients. Read on to learn more.

Implantable Miniature Brain-Machine Interface Offers Low Power Usage

Researchers at EPFL have developed the first high-performance, miniaturized brain-machine interface (MiBMI), offering an extremely small, low-power, highly accurate, and versatile solution. Read on to learn about it.

High-Tech Bandages Could Fend Off Infections, Improve Healing

When wounds happen, we want them to heal quickly and without complications, but sometimes infections and other complications prevent it. Binghamton University Prof. Seokheun “Sean” Choi has some ideas about how to improve the healing process. Read on to learn about them.

Head-Mounted Device Offers Hope for Treating Depression

A head-mounted device has been found to improve the symptoms of four male patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder. Future trials using the device may offer a safe and noninvasive way of treating depression. Read on to learn more.

Transdermal Technology: Designing the World’s First Seven-Day Patch for Alzheimer’s

Transdermal technology has been around for a very long time. The popularity of patches, consisting of plant, animal or mineral extracts, dates back to the building of the pyramids in ancient Egypt and in Babylonian medicine, around 3000 BC. How can transdermal patches help in the fight against Alzheimer’s? Read this article to find out.

Noninvasive Method First to Continually Measure True Blood Pressure

A team of Caltech researchers has figured out a method to noninvasively and continually measure blood pressure anywhere on the body with next to no disruption to the patient. A device based on the new technique holds the promise to enable better vital-sign monitoring. Read on to learn more.

Wearable, Stretchable Sensor Detects Solid-State Skin Biomarkers

Researchers have developed a novel sensor that enables the continuous, real-time detection of solid-state epidermal bio-markers, a new category of health indicators. Read on to learn more.

Personalized Medicine: The Role of Nanosensors in Disease Detection

Nanosensors are transforming the field of disease detection by offering unprecedented sensitivity, precision, and speed in identifying biomarkers associated with various health conditions. These tiny sensors, often built at the molecular or atomic scale, can detect minute changes in biological samples. Read on to learn more about nanosensors.

Improved Microneedle Technology

An improved technique uses a single microneedle to get enough fluid for a test in about 10 minutes. The microneedles penetrate the outer skin layer, but they don’t reach nerve endings and are hollow. Read on to learn more.

Plug Prevents Total Knee Replacement

Synthetic cartilage-capped regenerative osteochondral plugs offer a potential off-the-shelf surgical device to treat OCDs and avoid total knee replacement. Read on to learn more about them.

Material Improves Implantable Technology

Borophene is more conductive, thinner, lighter, stronger, and more flexible than graphene, the 2D version of carbon. Now, researchers have made the material potentially more useful by imparting chirality — or handedness — on it. Read on to learn what this could mean for advanced sensors and implantable medical devices.