Friday, July 15th, 2011
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A man suffering from late stage tracheal cancer received a new trachea made from a synthetic scaffold seeded with his own stem cells during a surgery at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm last week. ...
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
The Institute of Nanotechnology, Ceram and the Materials Knowledge Transfer Networks will hold the conference "Nanoscale Bioceramics in Healthcare and High Performance Ceramics" on 12 and 13 October 2011. The conference will take place at Ceram’s headquarters in Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom.
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Rofin and Raydiance have extended their partnership agreement for an additional three years. The initial agreement, which started in June of 2010, was for one year. The collaboration between Rofin, a manufacturer of laser solutions for industrial material processing, and Raydiance, a developer of ultrafast laser technology, allows for the ...
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
From the wire: Sartorius Stedim Biotech and Südpack Medica AG have signed an exclusive cooperation agreement on the development, manufacture and supply of polymer plastic films for the biopharmaceutical market.
As part of this strategic partnership, which is based on an initial term of 10 years, SSB and Südpack will collaborate ...
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
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A new biomaterial invented by nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego mimics the properties of human tissue more closely than other materials, according to a UC San Diego ...
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
From the wire: Granta Design has announced a new online information resource covering the properties of human bone - part of an expanded materials information solution for orthopaedic device manufacturers. Granta's tools, demonstrated at this week's OrthoTec 2011 Conference in Warsaw, Indiana, United States, are intended to make it easier ...
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Friday, May 20th, 2011
The Medevice Spain exhibition and Biomaterials Europe conference, two new events designed to connect medical device manufacturers with industry suppliers, are launching in Spain in October.
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Researchers at Queen's University in Belfast have developed new types of cement materials for the repair of the spine after burst fractures, according to an article in the Engineer. The team developed a range of calcium phosphate cements that can be injected into fractures and that are reabsorbed when the ...
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Friday, May 13th, 2011
The importance of choosing the right material when developing medical devices will be the focus of a keynote address delivered by Dr Xiang Zhang during the virtual event “Developments in Materials for Medical Applications” on 24 May 2011. The event is organised by EMDT, MD+DI and Qmed. Zhang is Principal ...
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Multi-Seals Inc. has introduced the Nano-forms epoxy preforms for precision seals on microelectronics. With preforms as small as 0.89 mm OD and 0.28 mm ID, the Nano-forms allow for highly repeatable placement of minute amounts of epoxy. With dimensional tolerances as close as ± 0.013 mm for critical applications, Nano-forms ...
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
The market for thermoplastic elastomers, a family of rubber-like materials, will see great growth in the next few years, says Per Hellberg, Managing Director of the TPE company Elasto. As Elasto continues to expand into new markets, so will TPE continue to be used for new application areas, Hellberg predicts.
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Monday, February 7th, 2011
A white paper from materials testing consultancy Ceram reviews technologies that are having an impact on the development of next-generation stents. In particular, "Stents – New Materials and Technologies for the Future" discusses how computational modeling and material formulation and characterisation are helping to improve clinical outcomes. It also considers new trends, ...
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