Medical News
Surface-mount current sensors handle up to 400 A
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 21:45
Allegro MicroSystems announced significant ease-of-use enhancements to its popular high current fully integrated ACS772/3 current sensor "CB" package family. These industry-leading, automotive-grade high voltage isolatio...
High-power-density PoL regulator puts out 15 A/50 W
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 19:22
Flex Power Modules announces the BMR4615001/001, a new variant of its popular BMR461 series of digital point-of-load (PoL) regulators. The new module provides up to 15A/50W at an adjustable output voltage of 0.6-3.3V, wh...
ASH announces top trainee abstracts of 2019 Annual Meeting
EurekAlert! - 7 Nov 2019 07:00
(American Society of Hematology) ASH is pleased to recognize the following trainees, whose meritorious scientific abstract has received one of the awards in the ASH Abstract Achievement Award program portfolio, at the 61...
Human heart cells are altered by spaceflight, but return to (mostly) normal on Earth
Science Daily - 7 Nov 2019 23:07
Heart muscle cells derived from stem cells show remarkable adaptability to their environment during and after spaceflight, according to a new study. The researchers examined cell-level cardiac function and gene expressio...
Mated female mosquitoes are more likely to transmit malaria parasites
Science Daily - 7 Nov 2019 23:07
Female mosquitoes that have mated are more likely to transmit malaria parasites than virgin females, according to a new study.
Giving billions of live bacteria to boost the gut health of premature babies
Science Daily - 7 Nov 2019 23:06
Boosting the milk of premature babies with healthy bacteria may have helped halve the number of serious gut problems and infections, according to new research.
Stem cell transplants used to grow fully functional lungs in mice
Science Daily - 7 Nov 2019 23:06
Researchers have used transplanted stem cells to grow lungs in mice. Findings could lead to new options for lung transplant patients.
Learning to stop cancer at its roots
Science Daily - 7 Nov 2019 23:06
Leukemia stem cells initiate and sustain leukemia, but researchers have found a way to steer them toward a path of self-destruction.
Researchers lay out first genetic history of Rome
Science Daily - 7 Nov 2019 23:06
Despite extensive records of the history of Rome, little is known about the city's population over time. A new genetic history of the Eternal City reveals a dynamic population shaped in part by political and historical e...
Imagined movements can alter our brains
Science Daily - 7 Nov 2019 23:00
Brain-computer interfaces have a structural impact on brain substance.
DDR and other memory sockets target development, failure analysis chores
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 21:41
Technology Licensing and Operations agreements executed between Ironwood Electronics and HSIO Technologies now allow Ironwood to provide the Gypper DDR and other memory sockets. The DDR4 Ironwood Grypper socket, P/N 1070...
Selecting a replacement external power supply - what you need to know
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 20:36
Fundamentally, you need to know four basic things when selecting a new power supply for a broken electronics device. The voltage coming from the socket at the wall (Europe/Japan/US), the voltage output, the current, and ...
Low power transformers now UL recognized as Class 2 models
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 20:09
Signal Transformer, a Bel group company, announced selected models of the ST and DST Series of high isolation split bobbin, low power transformers, are now recognized by UL as Inherently Limited Class 2 transformers per ...
Film capacitors handle up to 3 kV for dc link apps
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 19:33
TDK presents the new B2568 series of EPCOS MKP DC link power capacitors, which offer outstanding robustness under harsh environmental conditions. The new capacitors are designed for voltages of between 900 and 3000 V DC ...
Researchers discover how cells know their future and forget their past
Science Daily - 7 Nov 2019 19:26
All cells in the body contain the same genetic material. The difference between cells therefore depends solely on which genes are expressed or 'turned on'. Now, researchers have gained new insights into how genes are tur...
World's most comprehensive study of a deadly heart condition yields 1st results
Science Daily - 7 Nov 2019 19:26
Researchers have revealed the initial results from the world's largest comprehensive study of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an abnormal thickening of the heart that often goes undiagnosed and can prove deadly. The conditi...
Why beta-blockers cause skin inflammation
Science Daily - 7 Nov 2019 19:26
Beta-blockers are often used to treat high blood pressure and other cardiovascular diseases. However, in some patients they can trigger or exacerbate psoriasis, an inflammatory skin disease. Scientists have now found a p...
Eval board carries three-phase SiC power module for motor drives
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 19:12
Silicon carbide (SiC) is en route to mainstream for applications like photovoltaic and uninterruptable power supplies. Infineon Technologies AG is now targeting the next group of applications for this wide bandgap techno...
STM32Cube LoRaWAN dev facilities now include firmware update over the air specs
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 19:06
STMicroelectronics has enhanced its STM32 LoRaWAN software expansion package for developers (I-CUBE-LRWAN) to support the latest Firmware Update Over The Air (FUOTA) specifications. FUOTA cost-effectively future-proofs L...
Innovative bidirectional buck-boost controllers earn Renesas Electronics a 2019 Leap Award
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 17:29
The votes are in. Business-to-Business publisher WTWH Media, LLC, has announced the winners of the second-year Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program (LEAP) Awards, a design engineering product competition honorin...
Innovative GaN ac-dc converter IC from Power Integrations earns 2019 Leap Award
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 17:05
The votes are in. Business-to-Business publisher WTWH Media, LLC, has announced the winners of the second-year Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program (LEAP) Awards, a design engineering product competition honorin...
Sugar-coating proteins can help us understand brain disease
Science Daily - 7 Nov 2019 16:39
Researchers have developed a new way to tag proteins in human cells with a small sugar molecule called O-GlcNAc. The exact role played by O-GlcNAc remains a mystery but the molecule is found on proteins related to Alzhei...