Archive for the ‘Nanotechnology and Microtechnology’ Category
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
The 6th Compamed Spring Convention will take place in the south of Germany this year. On 3 May 2012, medical technology experts will get together in the Conference and Banquet Centre at the Stuttgart Airport. The established forum “high-tech trends in medical technology” this year will focus on “Intelligent MST-solutions ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
After celebrating its 10th anniversary last year, nano tech 2012 - The 11th International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference will take place 15 to 17 February 2012 at the International Exhibition Center Tokyo Big Sight in Japan. After highlighting "green nanotechnologies" in previous years, life science applications of nanotechnology will be added as a ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
If a theory about detecting extremely faint electrical signals by means of a nanomechanical loudspeaker can be shown to work in experiments, it could result in much simpler MRI procedures, reports Nanowerk News.
A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute and Harvard University in the United States and the ...
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Mast Carbon, a manufacturer of synthetic carbon–based specialty materials based in Basingstoke, UK, has established a spin-out company to commercialise biomedical carbon in a joint venture with Second Mile. Named Acesco Health, the spin-out is developing a proprietary range of activated carbon bead products that combine the usual benefits of ...
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
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Animal research continues to be a controversial topic in medical research. In Germany ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
From the wire: MIT engineers have developed a nanoscale biological coating that can halt bleeding nearly instantaneously, an advance that could dramatically improve survival rates for soldiers injured in battle.
The researchers, led by Paula Hammond and funded by MIT’s Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies and Denmark-based Ferrosan Medical Devices a/s, created ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
Bax & Willems, a specialised consultancy firm, has just release a free-to-download European Nanotechnology Landscape Report that provides an overview of the nanotechnology landscape in Europe targeted at policy makers on all levels (local, regional, national and European). It also examines how nanotechnology developments, and the solutions they enable, can help ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
At Compamed in Düsseldorf last week, imec presented its new technology for wireless ECG monitoring. I spoke to Julien Penders, Program Manager at imec/ Holst Centre about imec's new ECG System-on-Chip (SoC) for ECG monitoring with high processing power at very low energy consumption. "The SoC uses a blootooth low energy ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have developed a new technique to visualise live cancerous cells using luminescent metal-based nanotechnology, according to a university press release. The research is a collaboration between the School of Chemistry and the School of Biochemistry and Immunology and was recently published in the Journal of ...
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
UK's Technology Strategy Board in partnership with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is going to invest up to £9 million in grant funding to support innovative, business-led collaborative research projects focussed on nanoscale technology-enabled solutions for the healthcare sector. The competition encourages applications for business-led projects focussing on the ...
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Germany's IVAM Microtechnology Network returns to the Micromachine/MEMS exhibition in Tokyo this month, where it will host the Japanese-German Micro/Nano Business Forum. At the seminar on 14 July, speakers such as Prof. Esashi of Tohoku University and Prof. Gessner of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS will provide ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
A newly developed technology that uses a laser and electric fields to manipulate fluids and tiny particles has a range of potential applications, including medical diagnostics. The technology could produce innovative sensors and analytical devices for lab-on-chip applications, or miniature instruments that perform measurements normally requiring ...
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