Briefs: Medical
A team of Cornell University graduate engineering students say that they envision a future where a healthcare robot could display a patient’s temperature and pulse, and then read and react to a...
Briefs: Medical
A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado has determined that carbon-fiber composites, which are stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum, can be easily and cost-effectively...
Briefs: Medical
Dr. Mark Rodefeld, a pediatric heart surgeon at Indiana University, has spent decades helping to fix children’s hearts. He found one problem particularly vexing, leading to years of his own research...
Briefs: Medical
In a study led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), epitaxy, or growing crystalline film layers that are templated by a crystalline substrate, is a...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A team of electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering students at Rice University, calling itself Carpal Diem, has developed a testing suite to validate how well 3D-printed prosthetic hands...
Briefs: Medical
Mechanical Engineering professors Larry Howell and Spencer Magleby at Brigham Young University have spent the past five years applying the principles of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, to...
Briefs: Medical
Bioengineering researchers at Rice University have modified a commercialgrade CO2 laser cutter to create OpenSLS, an open-source, selective laser sintering (SLS) platform that, they...
Briefs: Medical
A team of computer scientists at MIT has developed a low-power chip to process 3D camera data that, they say, could aid visually impaired...
Briefs: Medical
Cracks in ceramic capacitors, devices that store electric charge in electronic circuits, can cause damage to such disparate objects as medical implants and spacecraft. The cracks, which are often hidden...
Briefs: Medical
Graphene, which was discovered in 2004, is 1 million times thinner than a human hair, 300 times stronger than steel, and is the best known conductor of heat and...
Briefs: Medical
A research team at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created an extremely strong yet lightweight...
Briefs: Medical
Researchers at Northwestern University’s Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology say that they have developed a polymer that might one day be used in artificial muscles or other lifelike materials;...
Briefs: Medical
A team of neurosurgeons and scientists at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSTL) in St. Louis and engineers at the University...
Briefs: Medical
Frequent measurement and study of changes in blood flow could be used to improve the ability of health care providers to diagnose and treat patients with vascular conditions,...
Briefs: Medical
In the future, NASA astronauts journeying into deep space may be able to give themselves a health check-up using a small...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A team of mechanical engineers at Georgia Tech say that they have demonstrated a new process to rapidly fabricate complex three-dimensional nanostructures from a variety of materials, including...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
While manufacturers bemoan a lack of skilled potential employees, and returning veterans experience frustration at being able to find employment, one organization— Workshop for...
Briefs: Medical
Northeastern University’s Hanchen Huang, a professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and two of his PhD students say they have come up with a better way of...
Briefs: Medical
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) say that manufacturers may soon have a speedy and nondestructive way to test a wide array of materials under real-world...
Briefs: Medical
In a first for the field of upper limb prosthetics, a pioneering surgical technique has allowed an amputee to attach a Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL) developed by researchers at...
Briefs: Medical
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A team of scientists from the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine...
Briefs: Medical
The discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895 changed the medical profession far more than its simple black and white image would suggest. The beams he used, higher in frequency than ultraviolet...
Briefs: Medical
A team of engineers from North Carolina State University and Duke University has developed a metamaterial made of paper and aluminum that, they say, can manipulate acoustic waves to more than...
Briefs: Medical
Chemical engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a thin, stretchable film that coils light waves like a spring and may...
Briefs: Medical
A team of researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M), Ann Arbor, are using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as small as neurons to begin to unlock the secrets of neural...
Briefs: Medical
A team of engineers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a novel self-healing gel that,...
Briefs: Medical
Previously, Medical Design Briefs reported on a baby boy whose life was saved using a custom 3D-printed tracheal...
Briefs: Medical
Portable Acoustic Holography Systems for Therapeutic Ultrasound Sources
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a rapidly developing medical technology that relies on focusing acoustic waves to treat remote tissue sites inside the body without damaging intervening tissues. HIFU can be used to treat benign and malignant tumors, dissolve blood...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
While trips and stumbles leading to falls can be common for amputees using leg prosthetics, a new robotic leg prosthesis being developed at Carnegie Mellon University promises to help users recover their...
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