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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Consider Phase Zero: The Importance of DFX to Meet Deadlines, Deliverables
If the race to meet short-term milestones is run blindly, it can forever hamstring a medical device timeline.
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From the Editor: Design
From the Editor
Here are the winners of the 2022 Medical Design Briefs’ Readers’ Choice Products of the Year.
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Global Innovations: Medical
Analyzing Sweat via Microelectronic Fibers for Noninvasive Health Monitoring
The fiber could lead to fiber-based smart clothes that provide greater versatility in functions, larger sensing areas, and greater comfort.
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Features: Tubing & Extrusion
DfM and Product Development for Micro Medical Device Applications
In its most general sense, DfM for medical devices means the design of parts sympathetic to the production process being used in order to make optimized outcomes in a timely fashion.
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Modernizing Therapeutic Cell Production
With so much at stake, attention is now shifting to adopting more modern equipment and methods to consistently produce the best cells.
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Features: Electronics & Computers
Embedded Intelligence and Connectivity: High-Performance Modules for Mixed-Critical Applications
The growing use of AI in medical applications is leading to drastically higher performance demands for the embedded computing technology.
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Briefs: Medical
Wireless, High-Speed, Low-Power Communications for Implantable Devices
Implantable bioelectronics are now often key in assisting or monitoring vital organs, but they often lack a safe, reliable way of transmitting their data to doctors.
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Briefs: Medical
Silicon Nanochip Could Treat Traumatic Muscle Loss
Technology developed by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine can change skin tissue into blood vessels and nerve cells.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Extrusion Process Enables Synthetic Material Growth
A team of scientists and engineers has developed a first-of-its-kind, plant-inspired extrusion process that enables synthetic material growth.
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Applications: Medical
Renamic Neo Offers Complete Wireless Connectivity to Implants
Tiotronik’s Renamic Neo communicates with a medical device implanted in a patient, such as a pacemaker, ICD, or implantable cardiac monitor.
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Products: Medical
Product Focus: Motors & Motion Control 2023
Product Focus: Motors & Motion Control 2023
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Global Innovations: Imaging
Microscope Could Speed Up and Simplify Breast Cancer Treatment
Researchers have developed an ultra-tiny endo-microscope that could help improve breast cancer treatment and cut NHS waiting lists.
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News: Medical
Design Firm Veranex Acquires Fusion Biotec

Veranex, Raleigh, NC, has acquired Fusion Biotec, a design and engineering firm for complex electro-mechanical diagnostic instrumentation and medical devices located in Orange, CA. According to the...

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Global Innovations: Design
Flexible Surgical Needle Offers Enhanced Precision
Engineers have developed an innovative surgical needle whose trajectory can be corrected on the fly, thanks to a flexible tip controlled with a simple button.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Integrated Rupture Disk Assemblies for Cryogenic Equipment and Storage Systems
OEMs are increasingly turning to integrated rupture disk assemblies with all components combined by the manufacturer, as opposed to loose rupture disk and holder devices that leave much to chance.
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From the Editor: Medical
From the Editor: Data-Driven Brain Care: The Future of Neuroscience
Connectomics, the field of understanding brain connectivity, is poised to change the future of neuroscience.
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R&D: Design
Stable Electrodes for Long-Term BCI
The electrode can be worn comfortably and stable for up to four weeks, without the potential need for any medical personnel to intervene to maintain it.
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R&D: Robotics, Automation & Control
Tiny Swimming Robots Treat Deadly Pneumonia in Mice
The microrobots are made of algae cells whose surfaces are speckled with antibiotic-filled nanoparticles.
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R&D: Medical
Robot Sleeves Help Kids with Cerebral Palsy
The garments will contain sealed, airtight regions that can inflate, making them temporarily rigid and providing the force for movement.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Product of the Month
The Product of the Month for November 2022.
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Briefs: Design
Tubing Coated with Light-Powered Catalysts Aids Drug Manufacturing
The new class of materials is insoluble, so it can be used over and over again. Such catalysts could be used to coat tubing and perform chemical transformations on reactants as they flow through the tube.
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Briefs: Materials
Tough Gel Adhesives for Wound Healing
A Band-Aid® adhesive bandage is an effective treatment for stopping external bleeding from skin wounds, but an equally viable option for internal bleeding does not yet exist.
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Briefs: Design
Novel Radiation Therapy Delays Brain Cancer Regrowth
UC San Diego Health is the first hospital system in San Diego to offer a new, highly targeted, and precisely placed radiation therapy that delays tumor regrowth while protecting healthy tissue in patients with brain cancer.
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Briefs: Materials
Medical Device Machining: Precise and Reliable Parts for Critical Applications
For the medical device industry, the cutting edge of parts machining goes far beyond having the latest CNC equipment and accessories.
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Products: Imaging
New Products and Services
The new products and services in November 2022.
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Products: Design
Product Focus: Manufacturing/Assembly Equipment
The manufacturing/assembly equipment Product Focus for November 2022.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Ultrathin Dental Camera Inspired by Insect-Eye Structure
Using the device, assorted functional imaging was demonstrated to satisfy clinical needs.
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INSIDER: Design
Novel COVID-19 Vaccine Uses Modified Bacterial DNA

A different way to build a COVID-19 vaccine is said to remain effective against new and emerging variants and could be taken as a pill, by inhalation, or other delivery methods.

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Features: Design
PreciHealth Case Study: Innovations in Self-Care Medical Devices Support Patient Engagement

Even before the pandemic disrupted patients’ in-person interactions with their healthcare providers, visionary designers had made significant...

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Top Stories

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INSIDER: Medical

New Material Solves Pressure Problem for Wearables

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Features: Design

Consider Phase Zero: The Importance of DFX to Meet Deadlines, Deliverables

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INSIDER: Medical

Polymer-Based Prefillable Syringes Drive Down Costs

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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Stretchable, Wearable Patch for Cardiac Ultrasound

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INSIDER: Medical

Sensor Detects Early Alzheimer's Disease

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INSIDER: Medical

Nano Drug-Delivery Breakthrough Targets Specific Cells

Ask the Expert

Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
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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

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Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping

How to Maximize the Benefits of Medical Device Onshoring

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Webinars: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Developing the Ultimate Medical Sensor Technology

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Webinars: Power

Precision Pulsed High Voltage: Electroporation Enabling Medical and Life...

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On-Demand Webinars: Medical

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

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On-Demand Webinars: Medical

Medical Device Biofilms: Slimy, Sticky, Stubborn, and Serious

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On-Demand Webinars: Medical

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Making Medical Devices Smarter

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.

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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Sensor Detects Early Alzheimer's Disease

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Applications: Medical

Embedded System Design and Development for ARM-Based Laboratory Analyzers