Archive for December, 2008
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
PDD has won an iF 2009 product design award in the Medicine/Healthcare category for its work on the Vicon T-Series camera. These cameras have been used in hospitals for more than 20 years to analyse the gait of children and adults.
The latest T-Series demonstrates a giant leap in technology and ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Researchers have developed a compound that illuminates live cancer cells, enabling the spread of breast cancer cells in mice to be tracked using an endoscope. While fluorescent compounds for cancer detection have been developed before, such substances continue to fluoresce after diffusing to new locations, making it difficult to differentiate ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Currently, there are no guidelines for manufacturers on how to characterise vascular graft tissue engineered medical products (TEMPs). Thus, the industry often uses documents for vascular grafts that are not cell-seeded. However, the presence of live cells inside vascular TEMPs requires additional characterisation. This will be the subject of a ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Microfluidic devices are typically intricate, containing layers of glass or polymers, tiny channels, pumps, and valves. Such devices help doctors diagnose diseases such as HIV, diabetes, dengue fever, and hepatitis. But their complexity comes at a cost, often making them prohibitively expensive for clinics in developing countries.
To address this problem, ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
[caption id="attachment_2820" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="A clinical trial underway in Chicago is investigating the efficacy of a device made from a type of Gore-Tex fabric to seal a hole in the heart and, thus, prevent strokes. Photo courtesy Gore."][/caption]
People with a congenital heart defect known as patent foramen ovale (PFO) typically ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the former Minister-President of Bavaria, Günther Beckstein, have recently visited the technical college in Deggendorf, Germany. Among other things, they had the chance to get a close look at the TomoScope multisensor coordinate measuring machine with computer tomography sensor from the German measurement technology specialist Werth Messtechnik. ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, have focused on the problem of getting electrodes to stay in place for long periods and devised a potential solution.
The patent description of their Skin Screw Electrode tells us that the electrode has several microscopic “teeth” on its rim. When the electrode is ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
[caption id="attachment_2779" align="alignleft" width="154" caption="This image shows the cell before hydrogen peroxide is added. Image courtesy of Strano Laboratory"][/caption]
[caption id="attachment_2778" align="alignleft" width="154" caption="After hydrogen peroxide is added to the cell, the change in fluorescence enables different molecules to be identified. Image courtesy of Strano Laboratory"][/caption]
Engineers at MIT have developed carbon ...
Posted in Nanotechnology and Microtechnology, Research | Add Comment »
Monday, December 15th, 2008
The orthopaedics market continues to be one of the leading medical device sectors, consistently providing good levels of return to developers and investors, according to a recently released report from Research and Markets. But the report also finds that companies are starting to give R&D expenditures more scrutiny than in ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
[caption id="attachment_2763" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="EFD president Peter Lambert welcomes visitors to the company's ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday. Also pictured is Katherine Flynn from the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp."][/caption]
These days, when the private and public sectors meet, there's not much joy. So it was refreshing to encounter Rhode Island Governor ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
[caption id="attachment_2741" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Silpuran silicone coatings impart breathability and trauma-free removal properties to wound dressings."][/caption]
Ultra-high-purity silicone products for medical applications have been introduced under the Silpuran name by chemicals manufacturer Wacker (Munich, Germany). The material is suited for orthopaedic and prosthetic products, disposable syringe and dialyzer seals, respiratory tubing, ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
The Intel Seattle Research Lab is developing a small sensor that could be implanted into devices or the human body. The device can generate power from the environment using energy from sources such as sunlight, sound waves, wireless transmissions, and so forth. The sensors would be capable of gathering ...
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