Graphene-based film can be used for efficient cooling of electronics
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film. The film has a thermal conductivity capacity that is four times...
View Article“Smart capsule” is potential new drug-delivery vehicle
Editor’s Note: This article was written by Emil Venere with an interview from Babak Ziaie, both of Purdue University. A new “smart capsule” under development could deliver medications directly to the...
View ArticleAthermal laser machining for medical implants is the topic of Norman Noble’s...
Thermal lasers have achieved extraordinary results in microprecision manufacturing of medical implants and devices the past 20 years. Devices we take for granted today, such as vascular stents, could...
View ArticleU.S. Army Research Office backs NYU engineering team’s investigation of...
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s Army Research Office (ARO) recently awarded a New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering researcher a grant to advance protein-engineered, environmentally...
View ArticleNew study demonstrates 87% of rigid containers tested allowed bacterial...
According to a new scientific study published in the December print publication of the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC),i 87 percent of tested sterilized rigid containers – used in the...
View ArticleHot melt extruded and injection moulded drug delivery forms articles
Hot melt extrusion (HME) and injection moulding (IM) are becoming more prevalent in the drug delivery field due to their advantages over current pharmaceutical manufacturing techniques. Recently...
View ArticleGE backs Injeq’s smart needle
Injeq, a resident at GE’s Health Innovation Village in Helsinki, created a smart needle that tells the user about surrounding tissue for safer liver biopsies and lumbar punctures. The Finnish company’s...
View ArticleThese students redesigned scalpel packaging to prevent injuries
A group of Georgia Tech biomedical engineering students has created a new scalpel blade packaging that is designed to protect healthcare workers from injuries when handling scalpel blades. The...
View ArticleFDA clears Imperative Care’s stroke treatment catheters
Stroke-treatment startup Imperative Care (Campbell, Calif.) said it has landed FDA approval for its first line of access catheters. Access to brain blood vessels can be challenging because of the...
View ArticleLoop Medical lands $3.2M grant for blood collection device
Loop Medical said today that it has received a $3.2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support pre-production and clinical trials required for the global registration of its...
View Article8 medical device industry supplier innovations you need to know
Medical device innovation doesn’t just come from startups or big corporate R&D departments. Contract manufacturers and suppliers are increasingly playing a role, too. Long gone are the days when...
View ArticleThese tiny ‘mirrors’ could make tracking catheters easier
Clinicians around the world perform millions of endovascular procedures per year, using catheters and guided by X-rays to place stents or remove blood clots. That’s a lot of radiation for patients and...
View ArticleMicro expands in New Jersey
Micro announced this month that it has opened a new 15,000-square-foot R&D center in a recently purchased building next to its present facilities in Somerset, N.J. The acquired 50,000-square-foot...
View ArticleProtolabs’ healthcare grant spurs 2 feeding tube inventions
Digital manufacturer Protolabs (NYSE:PRLB) announced today that MedStar Health (Columbia, Md.) and Cleveland Clinic Innovations are joint winners of the company’s Cool Idea Award: Healthcare Grant....
View ArticleIs it possible to ‘knit’ replacement blood vessels?
A new way to replace a patient’s damaged blood vessels may be on its way, as researchers in France are figuring out a way to “knit” new vessels with a collagen-based extracellular matrix. Inserm...
View ArticleWhat is medical tubing used for?
Medical tubing allows clinicians to administer fluid and or even devices — as well as potentially allow for gas flow. And that’s just the beginning. Common applications of medical tubing include...
View ArticleHow glass tubing supports Mayo Clinic innovation
At the Mayo Clinic Glass Shop, scientific glassblowing creates glass tubing and apparatuses for cardiac, transplantation and tissue perfusion research — and more recently, to help fight the COVID-19...
View ArticleCould these DIY ventilators stop coronavirus from killing people?
Amid the global crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals and healthcare facilities are reporting shortages of vital equipment that not only keeps the patients safe, but the staffers, too....
View ArticleHow to weave human tissue into new blood vessels
Researchers at the University of Bordeaux in France have engineered human tissue to be woven into blood vessels and treat diseased or damaged blood vessels. Synthetic blood vessel grafts are typically...
View ArticleMIT researchers may have invented a safer way of splitting ventilators
MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers say they have a way of splitting ventilators which could address many of the safety concerns — potentially boosting the supply of ventilators amid the...
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