Medical News
The hitchhiker's guide to defeating glioblastoma
EurekAlert! - 25 Jan 2019 09:00
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) A team of investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School has begun looking at microRNAs in an entirely new way. Their approach has shown promising results in precl...
FCC 28 GHz Auction Comes to a Close, Raising $702M
Medical Design Technology - 26 Jan 2019 01:30
News After 38 days of action, the FCC auction for 28 GHz millimeter wave spectrum licenses concluded on Thursday, with nearly 3,000 items receiving bids. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Wireless Week
ROSA Knee System Receives FDA Clearance for Robotically-Assisted Surgeries
Medical Design Technology - 26 Jan 2019 00:03
News Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., a company focused on musculoskeletal healthcare, announced the U.S. FDA clearance of the ROSA Knee System for robotically-assisted total knee replacement surgeries... Contributed Author...
Arrcus Enables 400 Gigabit on Networking Switches
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 20:46
Product Announcement Arrcus, a leading provider of the software that powers network infrastructure and its transformation for the interconnected world, announced ArcOSĀ® support on multiple 400GbE and high-density 100GbE...
Apple Cuts Jobs in Shakeup of Self-driving Car Division
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 20:45
News Apple is reducing the size of its workforce assigned to driverless car technology as the company reorganizes amid weakening sales of iPhones, its biggest moneymaker. Contributed Author: Associated Press Topics: Wire...
Flex Power Modules' New DC-DC Converters Are Cost-Optimized for High-Volume Wireless/Microwave Applications
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 20:42
Product Announcement Flex Power Modules is introducing the PKU4611A and PKU4617A, two new isolated DC-DC converters in the sixteenth-brick form factor. The new converters are ideal for low-power radio frequency power amp...
L-Code PCB/Panel-Mount Power Connectors
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 19:37
Product Announcement TE Connectivity (TE) has extended its portfolio of M12 connectors to include L-code PCB/panel types that offer a compact high-power solution for automation devices. "Our new connectors take up 40 per...
Air Force Research Laboratory Announces International Swarm and Search AI Challenge
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 18:59
News The Air Force Research Laboratory, United Kingdom Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, or DSTL, in collaboration with Wright Brothers Institute and University of Dayton Research Institute, announced, the... Co...
Watch This Aircraft-Inspection Robot Climb All Around a Boeing 737
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 18:50
Videos Currently, aircraft inspection is done manually with a handheld sensor, where a person takes infrared or photographic scans looking for any structural damage. This process carries a hefty time and financial... Sta...
Washing Your Hands: Startup Aims to Solve Major Healthcare Problem
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 18:44
News When Luke Kyne, Marawan Gamal, Parham Chinikar and Michael Wu learned Canada has the highest rate of health care acquired infections of any developed country, they were inspired to reduce it with a device called the...
Can AI Predict Parking Availability?
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 18:28
News Limited parking can put a damper on any outing. Travel apps can only help so much when it comes to traffic and popularity of a certain location. Driving around aimlessly doesn't always yield results, but a new solut...
NASA's Opportunity Rover Celebrates 15 Years on Mars
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 18:10
News NASA's Opportunity rover has successfully logged 15 years on the surface of Mars. When it first landed in the Red Planet's Meridiani Planum region January 24, 2004, it was meant to travel 1,100 yards and operate... ...
NC State Researchers Create 3D-Printed Soft Mesh Robots
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 18:06
News Researchers at North Carolina State University have created 3D-printed flexible mesh structures that can be controlled with applied magnetic fields while floating on water. The structures can grab small objects and....
PolyMed Composite Medical Tubing
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 18:00
Product Announcement Polygon Company, a producer of composite tubing, bearings, and cylinders, announced that it will be exhibiting its PolyMed Composite Tubing for surgical applications at MDM West... Contributed Author...
Bluetooth and RF Antenna System-in-Package Modules
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 17:50
Product Announcement Rutronik has announced that Insight SiP's new ISP1507-AL system-in-package (SiP) is now available at Rutronik24. Based on the nRF52810 multiprotocol system-on-chip (SoC) from Nordic Semiconductor... ...
Fewer False Alarms in Intensive Care
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 17:45
News Researchers at ETH Zurich are applying machine learning in intensive care units to distinguish between false alarms and those signalling real medical issues. Beep, beep, beep. In intensive care units (ICU), some... ...
New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 17:40
News Researchers have demonstrated that a laser can transmit an audible message to a person without any type of receiver equipment. The ability to send highly targeted audio signals over the air could be used to... Contr...
Static Electricity Could Charge Our Electronics
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 17:38
News Unhappy with the life of your smartphone battery? Thought so. Help could be on the way from one of the most common, yet poorly understand, forms of power generation: static electricity. "Nearly everyone has... Contr...
Innovative Technique Could Pave Way for New Generation of Flexible Electronic Components
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 17:35
News Researchers at the University of Exeter have developed an innovative technique that could help create the next generation of everyday flexible electronics. A team of engineering experts have pioneered a new... Contr...
Engineering Productivity Drives Generative Design to Over 16 Million Users by 2030
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 17:00
Industry Brief The market for software with generative design tools will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 24 percent to reach US$44.5 billion for over 16 million seats in 2030... Contributed Author: ABI Research ...
Drug Sponge Could Minimize Side Effects of Cancer Treatment
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 17:00
Article To treat cancer in organs like the liver, doctors are able to deliver drugs via catheter directly to the tumor, but leftover drug can escape and affect healthy organs elsewhere in the body. A drug sponge could so...
Graphene Implant Can Hear Your Brain Whisper
Medical Design Technology - 25 Jan 2019 17:00
News A new device was developed and adapted for brain recordings together with biomedical experts at IDIBAPS. This new technology moves away from electrodes and uses an innovative transistor-based architecture that ampli...