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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Custom Finger Clip Offers New Way to Measure Blood Pressure, Other Vitals
The novel device uses two photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Brain-Recording Device Could Help Patients Regain Mobility
The customizable device for recording brain activity is also affordable.
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Features: Connectivity
Is Healthcare Ready to Pick Up the Pace in Cybersecurity?
Healthcare organizations face very difficult choices in balancing patient protection with financial demands.
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Smartphone Platform Gives Early Warning for Cancer
A new platform provides visual detection analysis for lung cancer and ketosis/diabetes via different testing probes.
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R&D: Medical
Biosensor Enables Ultrafast Detection of COVID-19
Researchers have developed a genosensor that is efficient in detecting SARS-CoV-2.
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Global Innovations: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Quantum Brain Sensors Could Spot Dementia
Quantum sensors for the brain may soon identify brain diseases like dementia, ALS, and Parkinson’s.
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Supplements: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Winter 2021 Resource Guide
In our winter edition of the MDB Resource Guide, learn about new cleaning requirements and find the right company to match your medical-design needs.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optical Design Considerations for Additive Manufacturing
Light-based methods open many opportunities for medical applications.
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Wearable Sensors Measure Body Position
Scientists have created wearable, stitchable, and sensitive sensors from flexible polymers and bundles of carbon fiber.
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From the Editor: Wearables
From the Editor: Digital Revolution Drives Growing Connected Health Market
The connected healthcare market is growing at a robust rate, according to a report from Verified Market Research.
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Global Innovations: Imaging
New Sensor Enables Precise, Sensitive Brain Imaging Tool
A supersensitive magnetometer detects and records brain electrical activity.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
JILA Comb Breathalyzer Now More Sensitive to Disease Biomarkers
The sensitivity of the decade-old frequency comb breathalyzer now detects four additional biomarkers.
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R&D: Medical
Micron-Sized Lab-on-a-Chip Devices
Researchers have demonstrated the ability to create microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices with channels and valves smaller than ever before.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Licking a Tootsie Roll® Sensor to Monitor Health
The candy was used as an electrode to detect salt and electrolyte levels in saliva.
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Trivia: Medical
Diagnostics
What instrument was essential to the development of modern-day electrocardiogram?
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Features: Data Acquisition
FDA’s Modernization Plans Gain Momentum in Expediting Healthcare Innovation
The FDA will focus on data management and digitizing healthcare.
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Liquid Metal Sensors and AI Help Prosthetic Hands to ‘Feel’
Researchers used individual fingertips fitted with stretchable tactile sensors with liquid metal.
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Self-Powered Diaper Sensors Monitor Urine Sugar Levels
The proposed system will help prevent the onset of diabetes.
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Technology Leaders: Sensors/Data Acquisition
FPGA Technology for High-Speed Medical Image Processing
Through better detection, digital mammography can significantly improve radiology outcomes.
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Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Medical Robotics - September 2021
Self-propelled nanobots that deliver drugs inside the human body...novel sensors that improve the safety and precision of industrial robots...a dynamic hydrogel material that makes building soft robotic devices...

R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
UV Sensors for Wearables Are Flexible, Sensitive
To make ultraviolet (UV)-detecting wearables, scientists have created a new type of light sensor that is both flexible and highly sensitive.
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Global Innovations: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Highly Accurate Test Quantifies Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2
Scientists have developed a rapid, highly accurate test to detect antibodies against the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 in human serum.
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Features: IoMT
Show Preview: Medical Wearables for Biosensors
See what's happening at the Designing Biosensors for Medical Wearables Conference.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Bioprinted 3D Cardiac Patches Could Reverse Scar Formation After Heart Attacks
The system promotes myocardial regeneration after a cardiac event.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Optical Device Offers Improved Thyroid Cancer Screening
The device combines near infrared light, time resolved spectroscopy, and diffuse correlation spectroscopy.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Soft Skin Patch Could Provide Early Warning for Strokes, Heart Attacks
The patch uses ultrasound to monitor blood flow to organs.
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Trivia: Medical
Diagnostics
What well-known fictional device is now being developed as a real medical device?
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Features: Materials
Hierarchical Surface Restructuring for Electrodes and Microelectrode Arrays
Pulse Technologies has developed a patented technology that uses ultrashort pulse lasers to restructure surfaces in electrode materials and implantables.
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Show Preview: MD&M West
MD&M West brings together medtech engineers, business leaders, and innovative thinkers to create life-changing medical devices.
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INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Soft Robots Bend in Predictable Ways

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INSIDER: Medical

3D Printing Could Change How Cancer Drugs Reach Tumors

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INSIDER: Materials

Hydrogels: The Future of Bone Implants

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Podcasts: Wearables

How Smart Implants and AI Robotics Could Transform Neurological Surgery

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Podcasts: Medical

How Tissue-Based Approaches Are Enabling Long-Term Implants

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News: Test & Measurement

Six Universities Awarded Minus K Negative-Stiffness Vibration Isolators

Ask the Expert

John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
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FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.

Webcasts

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Editorial Webinars: Medical

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

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Podcasts: Design

How Smart Implants and AI Robotics Could Transform Neurological Surgery

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Podcasts: Medical

How Tissue-Based Approaches Are Enabling Long-Term Implants

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Podcasts: Design

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: Medical

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

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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