Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Two companies based in Galway, Ireland's medtech hub, are contributing their expertise to a pan-European project designed to develop new technologies for medical manufacturing, reports www.siliconrepublic.com.
Crospon, founded in 2006 to develop minimally invasive surgical devices, and Adama Innovations, which was spun out from Irish nanoscience institute CRANN earlier this year, ...
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Thursday, June 6th, 2013
The Hamburg Eppendorf University Medical Centre and the University of Technology Hamburg Harburg have announced the launch of a collaborative research hub, Forschungszentrum Medizintechnik (FMTHH). Starting in June 2013, the new facility will combine medical and engineering expertise under one roof. Both institutions have a long history of cooperation in ...
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Thursday, June 6th, 2013
When choosing optimal treatments for cancer patients, doctors must consider a number of factors: age, general health, weight, the medical history of family members, the current state of the disease and much more. Big data, in the form of a collaboration between IBM and the National Cancer Institute of Milan, ...
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Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
As we have noted before on medtechinsider, some fascinating conversations are going on over at the Medical Packaging Innovation site. Here are three that caught our attention recently.
Under the headline, "Need an Organ Transplant? Just Print It," Jayaraman Kiruthi Vasan wonders if 3-D printing has the potential to save some ...
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Friday, May 17th, 2013
The use of animal experiments is the elephant in the room in medical research. Among the many questions asked on the floor of a medical trade show, one is usually whispered: "Do you do animal research?" But people avoid the conversation not only because it's an uncomfortable topic. Researchers conducting ...
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Monday, March 18th, 2013
[caption id="attachment_30488" align="alignleft" width="200"] A 3-D rapid prototype of an enlarged lamella is shown. On the table is mineralised tissue within a remora adhesive disk.[/caption]
The remora has a unique way of bonding with sharks. Unlike other fish that obey their biological instincts and choose flight when a shark is nearby, ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2013
The European Commission has announced the winners of FET (Future and Emerging Technologies), a multi-billion research competition. Graphene, a project that will investigate the properties of the material, and the Human Brain Project, said to be the world's largest brain research programme, won the awards.
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Friday, January 18th, 2013
Despite the many political and economical differences across Europe, young scientists are facing similar problems: lack of lab access, senior professors who claim their ideas and complicated rules for how to apply for grants. A group of 70 young researchers are joining forces to find solutions to these and other ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Fraud and misconduct are the most common reasons research papers are retracted, a recent study found. The study has ignited the debate on how scientific publishing could be improved. These discussions often focus on how university professors' salaries and careers are tied to the results of their studies, but the ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Kyoto University researchers have discovered that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) combined with a near-infrared (NIR) light irradiation technique generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) and kill cancer cells. CNTs have unique properties that can be exploited for diagnostics, thermal ablation and drug delivery.
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Monday, October 1st, 2012
The Heterogeneous Technology Alliance (HTA), which encompasses a quartet of European research centres—CEA (France), CSEM (Switzerland), VTT (Finland) and Fraunhofer Institute (Germany)—has launched an R&D initiative under the heading of Smart Integrated Solutions (SIS2). The partnership hopes to jump-start the blended use of microsystems, optics, power supplies, wireless systems and ...
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
A carpet developed by researchers at University of Manchester could help prevent older people from falling by mapping changes in their gait, an article from the Engineer reports. By identifying such changes, the carpet could provide family members and caretakers with warnings of when an elderly person is more likely ...
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