Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 17th, 2009
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Researchers have announced the creation of a light source with a diameter of 44 nm. Dubbed the smallest laser ever made, the ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Japanese scientists have created a production line for uniform lipid-coated microspheres--a development that could facilitate the development of artificial cells and novel drug delivery applications. Using a microfluidic device, the team can continuously generate fluid-filled vesicles that are all the same size and all have a single lipid bilayer surrounding ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_8530" align="alignleft" width="324" caption="Leti’s first startup in the growing field of biomedicine combines technologies developed by Leti and the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble to improve tumour detection. Fluoptics’ FluoBeam instrument is expected to be available for preclinical research in 2010."][/caption]
Supplier to the med-tech industry Leti (Grenoble, France) has ...
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Vulcanium Metals International has announced that a new titanium warehousing and processing facility will be fully operational in the United Kingdom by October, 2009. The facility, located near Belfast in Northern Ireland, will be equipped and staffed to be a titanium stocking centre. The facility will offer the company's FirstCut+ ...
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
The UK National Health Service is asking healthcare technology companies to get involved in developing six products that that do not currently exist. Practicing clinicians from the two fields of ambulance services and paediatrics have specified the design attributes and business opportunities that each product presents. Funding will be available ...
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Morgan Technical Ceramics has introduced a new bioceramic material for surgical implants. Known as Vitox AMC, the alumina matrix composite can withstand high shock without fracture and exhibits low wear rates compared to alumina, metal or polyethylene. Developed at the company's facility in Rugby, UK, the sub-micron grain-sized alumina matrix ...
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Demand for disposable medical supplies in the US will increase by 4.6 percent annually to reach US$59 billion in 2013, according to a new report from The Freedonia Group. The best growth opportunities are expected in intermittent catheters for urinary drainage, dry powder inhalers, prefilled syringes and transdermal patches for ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_8430" align="alignleft" width="375" caption="An artist's representation of a device incorporating alamethycin biological pore. In the core of the device is a silicon nanowire (grey), covered with a lipid bilayer (blue). The bilayer incorporates bundles of alamethicin molecules (purple) that form pore channels in the membrane. Image courtesy of Scott ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Microfluidic applications provider Dolomite has entered a partnership with Swiss sensor manufacturer Sensirion AG to offer microfluidic flow meters for the measurement of ultra-low liquid flow rates in the laboratory. This technology allows for sensor-actuator integration in Dolomite’s range of microfluidic products. The compact and lightweight devices operate with total media isolation ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
The University of Colorado and Biotricity Medical Inc. recently entered an option agreement that allows Biotricity Medical to develop technology for implantable biogenerators. These biogenerators provide a long-term, potentially inexhaustible, power supply to implanted medical devices such as pacemakers and insulin pumps and thereby remove the need for repeated power ...
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Texcel Medical (East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA), a supplier of contract services to the med-tech industry, has announced an expansion of its capabilities. The company has hired new staff and invested nearly US$1 million in state-of-the-art capital manufacturing equipment.
“Texcel Medical is bolstering its product development, manufacturing and quality assurance expertise and ...
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_8400" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Researchers are developing a new class of tiny mechanical devices containing vibrating, hair-thin structures that could be used to filter electronic signals . A tiny prototype, roughly comparable in size to a grain of sand, is pictured above. Image courtesy of Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue ...
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