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Bringing Digital Innovation from Lab to Life in Cardiology

BIOTRONIK, die Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and the German Heart Center Foundation have formed a research and innovation partnership focused on advancing digital and...

Six Universities Awarded Minus K Negative-Stiffness Vibration Isolators

Minus K Technology has awarded passive mechanical negative-stiffness low-frequency vibration isolators to six universities through its Educational Giveaway program. The...

Trelleborg Expands Innovation Center

Trelleborg Medical Solutions is breaking ground to expand its Innovation Center based in Delano, MN. The company says the site expansion will enable it to take on additional projects and accelerate the...

Enlil Forms Strategic Alliance with OVA Solutions to Solve Medtech’s Costliest Documentation Problem

Enlil, an AI-powered development traceability platform built for medical device and life sciences organizations, has formed a strategic...

Bodycote to Open New Heat Treatment Facility in Mexico

Bodycote, a provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services, plans to open a new facility in Apodaca, Mexico, at a date yet to be announced in 2026. Located in the...

Component Manufacturer PrecisionX Acquired by Windjammer Capital

PrecisionX Group, Waterbury, CT, has been acquired by private equity firm Windjammer Capital. PrecisionX manufactures high-precision metal components for regulated industries....

The Lee Company Opens New Innovation Center

The Lee Company has opened a new Innovation Center, a 27,500 sq ft facility built to accelerate product development and reinforce the company’s continued commitment to innovation in miniature....

Quantum Surgical Acquires NeuWave Medical, Inc.

Quantum Surgical, a company specializing in minimally invasive robotic-assisted cancer treatment, has acquired NeuWave Medical, Inc., a medical device company whose products are used by...

MGS Acquires European-Based Medical Injection Molder Knudsen Plast A/S

MGS, a global healthcare contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has acquired Knudsen Plast A/S, a premier Denmark-based injection molder with more...

Medical Design Briefs and MedAccred Team Up to Support Medical Manufacturing Excellence at MD&M West 2026

Delivering trusted information and connecting engineers, manufacturers, and innovators with the resources they need to bring safer,...

Stryker's Robert Cohen Named Chair of AdvaMed’s Digital Health Tech Division Board of Directors 

Robert Cohen, vice president, innovation and technology, orthopaedic group at Stryker, has been named the next chair of the AdvaMed Digital Health Tech Board of Directors. He succeeds Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, global chief science and technology officer at GE HealthCare, who served as the inaugural chair of the board overseeing the then-newly created division. Read on to learn more.

Cadence Earns Silver Medal for Sustainability from EcoVadis

Cadence, Inc., Staunton, VA, has been awarded a silver medal from EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings. This marks the first time Cadence...

Nelson Labs Launches RapidCert™ Biological Indicator (BI) Sterility Testing

Nelson Laboratories, LLC, a business unit of Sotera Health Company and provider of outsourced microbiological and analytical chemistry testing and advisory...

Minus K to Give Negative-Stiffness Vibration Isolators to U.S. Colleges

Minus K Technology is set to give $25,000 worth of its patented passive mechanical negative-stiffness low-frequency vibration isolators to colleges in the United...

Six Winners Announced for the 2025 Women in Engineering: Rising Star Awards

SAE Media Group announced the winners of its Rising Star Awards: Women in Engineering program today during a live online event attended by participants across the globe.

2025 Rising Star Awards Winners

SAE Media Group’s Women in Engineering: Rising Star Awards program shines the spotlight on trailblazers who not only excel in their respective domains but also stroke the flames of inspiration in others. This year’s awards program features six categories: Aerospace/Defense, Automotive/Transportation, Electronics, Manufacturing/Materials, Medical, and Robotics, Automation and AI. In this special section, you’ll meet the winners in all six categories.

Osaka Prefecture Advances Regenerative Medicine with Future Medical Information Dissemination Project

Osaka Prefecture is moving forward with a large-scale initiative to accelerate regenerative medicine and drug discovery through...

How Digital Twins Could Lead to Better GI Function

Kennesaw State University’s Lei Shi is leading a research project that could alter how GI disorders are diagnosed and treated using virtual replicas of a human stomach.

AI Model Can Predict Cardiac Arrest Better than Doctors

A new AI model is much better than doctors at identifying patients likely to experience cardiac arrest. The linchpin is the system's ability to analyze long-underused heart imaging, alongside a full spectrum of medical records, to reveal previously hidden information about a patient's heart health.

Trelleborg Expands European Medical Device and LifeScience Manufacturing

Trelleborg Medical Solutions has opened 43,055 sq ft (4,000 sq m) of manufacturing space in Hal-Far, Malta, helping medical device and life science customers bring...

Nelson Labs Expands Laboratory Capacity and Services in Germany

Nelson Labs, a provider of microbiological testing, analytical chemistry testing, and advisory services, has expanded its state-of-the-art laboratory space at its Wiesbaden,...

Nelson Labs to Double Cleanroom Capacity to Support Growing Demand for Sterility Assurance Service

Nelson Laboratories, a global leader in microbiological and analytical testing services for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries,...

Critical Manufacturing Acquires Convanit to Advance AI-Powered Image Analytics in Smart Manufacturing

Critical Manufacturing, a provider of next-generation manufacturing execution systems (MES), has acquired Convanit, an AI specialist focused...

Growing a Whole-Brain Organoid

Johns Hopkins University researchers have grown a novel whole-brain organoid, complete with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels — an advance that could usher in a new era of research into neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism.

PRIME Project Launches to Strengthen Nitinol Supply Chain

Five leading companies in the medical device industry have launched the PRIME project — a strategic initiative dedicated to advancing the consistency, scalability, and performance of...

Qosina Partners with Sealed Air to Offer Bioprocessing Bag Film

Qosina, a distributor of single-use medical and biopharmaceutical components, has formed a strategic partnership with Sealed Air, a provider of high-performance packaging...

A Bionic Hand that Can Grip Like a Human

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds.

Proposed Surgical Devices Standard Covers Properties for Nickel Titanium Alloy

ASTM International’s medical and surgical devices committee (F04) is developing a proposed standard for a wrought nickel-titanium alloy. The alloy covered by the...

Boston Scientific to Acquire SoniVie Ltd.

Boston Scientific Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SoniVie Ltd., a privately held medical device company that has developed the TIVUS™ Intravascular Ultrasound System....