POSTS TAGGED AS biomedical engineering

Future of Biomedical Engineering

Grand challenges at the interface of cngineering and medicine
“. . . five grand challenges with cross-cutting themes and provided a [MORE]

Synthetic Beta Cells in a Patch Treatment for Diabetes

Artificial Beta Cells
Biomedical engineers in North Carolina (UNC–NCSU) have developed artificial pancreatic beta cells that automatically secrete insulin as needed.   [MORE]

Perspective on Nanotechnology

Nanoelectronics
It remains to be seen if the fifty year old “Moore’s law” (i.e. a doubling of the number of transistors [MORE]

The $1,000 Advanced Prosthetic Hand

Dextrus Hand
Workable prosthetic hands now exist, but cost up to $100,000.  In a classic example of “building a better [MORE]

Careers in Biomedical Engineering

New knowledge has long provided economic liberation, and despite so much business uncertainty today, a convergence of biological and [MORE]

Designing Rotors for Nanomachines

Anatoly Kolomelsky, PhD
First think of a Crookes radiometer-that child’s toy resembling a light bulb with a spinning vane inside.  [MORE]

Nanomaterials that Capture Circulating Tumor Cells

Biomedical engineers at Cornell University have added Halloysite nanotubes to a protein coated surface of a microflow device to more [MORE]

GE’s Reverse Innovation

In the lingo of international business, globalization means producing a product for worldwide sales.  “Reverse innovation,” is the opposite; it [MORE]

RFID Interference Protocols

About a year ago, alarm surfaced over RFID active tags interfering with hospital equipment, such as infusion pumps.  Only one [MORE]

Device Advice

There aren’t many, if any, better sources of information about medical devices than the FDA’s website “Device Advice.”  It gives [MORE]