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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 say, can print...
Briefs: Medical
Wearable device miniaturized for easier use.
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
Researchers tame aerogel by freezing it.
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
New metal could be used for mobile electronics and biomedical devices.
A research team at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created an extremely strong yet lightweight structural...
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; for...
Briefs: Medical
Bioabsorbable sensors negate need for removal surgery.
A team of neurosurgeons and scientists at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSTL) in St. Louis and engineers at the University of...
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, such...
Briefs: Medical
Comprehensive diagnostic system could easily fit in one hand.
In the future, NASA astronauts journeying into deep space may be able to give themselves a health check-up using a small hand-held...
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: Medical
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: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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 the...
Briefs: Medical
System to undergo longterm clinical testing.
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A team of scientists from the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine and the...
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 light...
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
New material could help patients get better followup care.
Chemical engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a thin, stretchable film that coils light waves like a spring and may one day...
Briefs: Medical
Tiny LEDs light up neural pathways.
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 pathways...
Briefs: Medical
First of its kind gel repairs circuits.
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, they...
Briefs: Medical
Additive manufactured tracheal splints provides life-saving support as needed.
Previously, Medical Design Briefs reported on a baby boy whose life was saved using a custom 3D-printed tracheal splint, a...
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: Medical
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...
Briefs: Medical
Xbox technology could make X-rays more precise.
A team of scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new approach to imaging patients, Based on the Microsoft Xbox...
Briefs: Medical
Pacemakers may be getting a power makeover.
The implantable pacemaker, which has helped extend millions of lives since its invention nearly 60 years ago, may be getting a new makeover. First came smaller...
Briefs: Medical
Demand for miniature motion components follows trends.
Not too long ago, the motion systems used in medical and lab automation equipment had technical requirements that were easy to...
Briefs: Medical
3D printing may be used to custom manufacture electronics.
A group of researchers from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, has demonstrated that combining two technologies—one to...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Not too far in the future, doctors may be using technology invented by a team of scientists at MIT to monitor patients’ vital signs by having them swallow an electronic device that can measure...
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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.
