Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
The race to find alternative sources of energy has taken an intracorporeal turn, as researchers far and wide attempt to find a way to power pacemakers without the use of batteries. Back in November, medtechinsider reported on a material that can generate power by absorbing light from outside the body, ...
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
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Research at the University of California, Berkeley may one day help patients unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis. Neuroscientists have decoded electrical activity in the brain's temporal ...
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Monday, February 6th, 2012
Last week, the Education Ministry of the Czech Republic approved the establishment of the Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre (Biocev), to be built near Prague. The project is a collaboration between the Czech Science Academy and Prague's Charles University and will focus on the development of drugs, diagnostics, tissue engineering and ...
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
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At the IEEE MEMS conference in Paris this week, Purdue researchers introduced an implantable sensor that can be powered by exposure to music, according to a Purdue press release.
Music within 200-500 Hz causes a cantilever in the device ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
An article on the New York Times website this month discussed a new generation of research websites, where scientists can collaborate and share their studies. The article compares "open science" with traditional peer-reviewed journals, quoting researchers that consider the traditional process to be expensive (for the readers), slow and elitist. ...
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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 18th, 2012
A study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal PloS ONE shows that a weak, electrical noise signal may help people with Parkinson's disease. The study was conducted by researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy of University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In experiments on rats, stimulating the balance organs with electrical noise improved ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
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Today AstraZeneca officially handed over its old research facility in Lund, Sweden to Medicon Village, a centre for research and innovation in medical technology and life science. The centre is designed to ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
A study by researchers from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, United States), Rush University Medical Center, (Chicago, Illinois, United States) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) found that a layer of graphitic carbon forms on metal-on-metal hip implants. The discovery could eventually improve the performance of these types of implants, since ...
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) have published a study on a new method for analysing electrical activity in the brain. The study was published in the journal Neuron. The method may result in new developments in interpreting EEG measurement and diagnosing and treating brain illnesses, according ...
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
A new three-year project at the University of Hertfordshire will focus on developing robotic devices for stroke rehabilitation. The robots will assist those recovering from stroke in the home by helping facilitate hand and wrist movements, according to a university press release. The project is coordinated by Dr Farshid Amirabdollahian, ...
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
Do you have an idea for a groundbreaking medical device but need a second opinion on its commercial potential? Let’s talk, says Medtronic. The company recently introduced Medtronic Eureka, a European web-based portal that helps physicians and medical technology inventors to bring their innovative ideas to life.
The Medtronic Eureka programme ...
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