Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Multinational medical device manufacturer Covidien has opened a customer services centre in Dublin that will ultimately employ 200 people. The €11 million centre in Cherrywood, south of the city, replaces 17 separate operations the company ran in different European countries. The company also announced plans ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
With the hope of making the city a hub for medical device research and development, the municipal government of Kyoto has opened an office in the centre of Kyoto to attract manufacturers, researchers and engineers. From 2006 to 2011, the city has committed to support researchers from local companies and in the ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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Researchers at the University of Rochester have created a simple metal pump that lifts liquid using the wicking process trees use to pull water from ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
The Helsinki Times reports that the Finnish capital is home to a variety of medical research, which is being carried out at a the new Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM). Still under construction, the main lab will fill about 2600 square metres of space when it is completed in ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Silver has been known since ancient times - but not just to make jewelry, tableware, utensils, or silver coins. The metal has also been used as an antiseptic and disinfectant. More than 2000 years ago, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, wrote that silver had beneficial healing and anti-disease properties. ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
On the left is a schematic of the first 3-D "fishnet" metamaterial that can achieve a negative index of refraction at optical frequencies. On the right is a scanning electron microscope image of the fabricated structure, developed by UC Berkeley researchers. The alternating layers form small circuits that can bend ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Remember the red, glowing bionic eyes of the cyborgs in the Terminator flicks? In that film series, the robots' eyes worked much like the human variety, converting light waves into clear, three-dimensional images of the outside world. Despite the considerable progress that has been made in the field of bionic ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Once a dental cavity has been detected, the dentist has little recourse but to drill out the decayed area. The mere thought of that causes many people to skip their annual dentist visit. A new technology could bring relief to those of us who dread the drill. King's College London ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The Kanzius machine is designed to kill cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue. Here, adenocarcinoma is shown at 400x magnification.
Earlier this year, the US television show 60 Minutes on the CBS network aired a report on John Kanzius, who has invented a device for treating cancer noninvasively. After the program ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Despite vast sums of money being spent to combat them, hospital-acquired infections continue to afflict millions of people annually. The problem has been made worse by widespread use of antibiotics over the years, which have made hospitals breeding grounds for especially virulent bacterial strains. Often present in the air, such ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Direct manufacturing is primarily being used for prototyping and has not yet gained widespread use in series production. To change that and advance technological progress, a centre dedicated to the development of direct manufacturing processes and systems will open in Germany in the fall of this year.
Boeing, EOS Electro Optical Systems, Evonik Industries, ...
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