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INSIDER: Medical
Diamonds and Silk Combine for New Imaging Tool
Silk and diamonds are the ingredients for a new kind of tiny glowing particle that could provide researchers with a novel technique for biological imaging and drug delivery. The particles, just tens of nanometers across, are made of nanodiamonds covered in silk.
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Using Lightwaves to Improve Brain Surgery
First-of-its-kind research being done at the Innovation Institute at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, shows promise for developing a method of clearly identifying cancerous tissue during surgery on glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a tumor that attacks tissue around nerve cells in the brain.
R&D: Medical
Powered wheelchair users, who are paralyzed from the neck down, can control their chair by sipping or puffing air into a straw mounted on their wheelchair to execute four basic commands that drive the...
R&D: Medical
Traditional X-rays generally cannot image the body’s soft tissues, except with the use of contrast-enhancing agents that must be swallowed or injected, and their resolution is limited. But a new approach...
R&D: Medical
The routine action of taking a person’s temperature belies the critical importance of obtaining accurate body temperature to assess the health of a patient. Subtle variations in body...
R&D: Energy
Where will the next source of electrode materials for batteries to power edible medical devices come from? Would you believe, from marine cuttlefish? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon...
R&D: Materials
Experiments by researchers at Rice University, Houston, TX, found that new biocompatible, stable, and inert materials they developed that start as flat slabs can morph into shapes that can be controlled by...
R&D: Electronics & Computers
A team of scientists at Penn State, University Park, PA, say that a new type of transistor could make fast, low-power computing devices possible for energy-constrained applications such as...
Features: Robotics, Automation & Control
The path to innovation is often long and full of challenges. For Corindus Vascular Robotics, the journey to develop the CorPath Vascular Robotic System...
Briefs: Medical
Updated Facts on 2015 HCFC-225 Usage Ban
In 1974, Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina discovered that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were depleting the ozone layer, and in 1995, they received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work. In response, the United Nations Environment Programme called an international conference to discuss the issue. Shortly...
Briefs: Medical
Today, medical devices are made using a variety of plastic materials and manufacturing processes. Advances in plastic processing make it possible to obtain virtually any shape, form, or function. In...
Briefs: Medical
Moving images could be invaluable when it comes to diagnosing wrist problems say a group of researchers at University of California-Davis. The multi-disciplinary team of radiologists, medical...
From the Editor: Medical
From the Editor — Thinking Warm Thoughts About Trade Shows
While most of the country is in the grip of the polar vortex, I’m thinking warm thoughts about places with palm trees—places like Anaheim, California, where I’ll be this month for MD&M West. February kicks off the first round of medical technology trade shows.
Features: Medical
The phrase, "May you live in interesting times" certainly applies to today's medical device design engineers, as they face unprecedented opportunities and challenges...
Features: Connectivity
Like many other devices these days, a select group of fluid connectors can now be found in the growing ranks of “intelligent” products. In addition to moving...
Applications: Connectivity
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) forms part of the Bluetooth V4.0 specification that has been ratified by the Bluetooth SIG since June 2010. But, in the last 12 months, it has begun to...
R&D: Medical
Pierced Tongue Used to Control Wheelchair
Powered wheelchair users, paralyzed from the neck down, can control their chair by sipping or puffing air into a straw to execute four basic commands that drive the chair....
Mission Accomplished: Medical
When the first Apollo mission to carry humans to the Moon ended in a fire that took the lives of three astronauts, NASA undertook a thorough investigation. The final accident report identified a...
Products: Medical
Transformix Engineering, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, has launched CNC Assembly™, patent-pending new technology for flexible high-speed assembly of small parts. CNC Assembly responds to...
Products: Medical
Servometer, Cedar Grove, NJ, manufactures specialty electroforms, which can be made in unusual shapes, miniature sizes, and close tolerances. They are rugg ed and extremely lightweight. These very precise,...
Products: Medical
Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, introduced TI Designs, the industry’s most extensive reference design library, spanning a portfolio of analog, embedded processor, and connectivity products. TI Designs include test...
Industry News: Medical
January 2014 Month-End Industry News
Here is the latest batch of news from the medical products community. Please click the link for more.
INSIDER: Medical
Maximizing Mobility with Minimum Energy
Studying how primitive man learned to walk upright, say researchers in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University, Corvallis, could lead to improved prosthetic lower limbs. Their findings outline a specific interaction between the ankle, knee, muscles, and tendons that improve understanding of how...
INSIDER: Medical
Google is currently testing a smart contact lens built to measure glucose levels in tears by use of a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material.
INSIDER: Medical
Smart Hydrogels Deliver Medicine on Demand
Researchers at the University of Delaware, Newark, have developed a “smart” hydrogel that can deliver medicine on demand, in response to mechanical force. What’s new about their material, is its ability to release medicine in response to force, a major challenge for people with osteoarthritis, which...
INSIDER: Medical
Creating Low Cost 3D Printed Prosthetic Sockets a World Away
A University of Toronto lab is partnering with an international NGO and a Ugandan hospital to use 3D scanning and printing to speed the process of creating and fitting sockets for artificial limbs. While 3D printing has been around for some time, a new generation of fast, cheap 3D...
INSIDER: Medical
Scientists from SLAC, Stanford University, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Advanced Light Source, grew sheets of an exotic material in a single atomic layer and measured its...
Industry News: Medical
January 2014 Mid-Month Industry News
Here is the latest batch of news from the medical products community. Please click the link for more.
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
Biotech Startup Turns to Space to Manufacture Artificial Retinas
INSIDER: Wearables
AI-Designed Shape-Shifting Microneedles Aid Diabetic Wound Healing
Blog: Regulations/Standards
Why the U.S. and China Are Taking Different Paths on Pig-to-Human Organs
Podcasts: Medical
Why the Next Medical Breakthrough May Come from Space
Features: Medical
Where Test Plans Break: Measuring the Performance of Ultra-Miniature...
Podcasts: Design
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
Editorial Webinars: Medical
Design for Miniaturization: Meeting the Demand for Smaller,...
Summits: Robotics, Automation & Control
2026 Medical & Healthcare Robotics Summit (Online)
Podcasts: Medical
Rapid Diagnostics for Extreme and Low-Resource Environments
Podcasts: Medical
Resilient Device Design for Harsh Conditions
Podcasts: Design
Making Telemedicine Work in Low-Connectivity Environments
Podcasts: Design
Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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.
