POSTS TAGGED AS medical device

Prototype for 3-D Printed Bionic Eye

Prototype for bionic eye
Following past success with bionic skin and a bionic ear, engineers at the University of Minnesota have [MORE]

The Automatic Toothbrush

Chiiz automatice toothbrush
An automatic toothbrush may not be the pinnacle of medtech, but it sure is cool.  Chiiz.com (Herndon, VA) [MORE]

3-D Printed Implantable Device for Spinal Cord Injury

3D printed stem cells
The video with this piece shows how University of Minnesota researchers were able to 3-D print layers [MORE]

Implantable Heart Monitor with Smartphone App

Implantable heart monitor
Last year, when Abbott Laboratories acquired St. Jude Medical it picked up an implantable heart monitor which already [MORE]

A Wearable for Opioid Withdrawal

Drug Relief by DyAnsys
The market for solutions to opioid addiction is growing, to say the least.  One response to that [MORE]

A “Smart Stent” that Monitors Arterial Conditions

UBC smart stent
Electrical and computer engineers at the University of British Columbia have created “the first angioplasty-ready smart stent.”  “[They] modified [MORE]

Capturing Tumor Cells on a Magnetic Wire

 
Magnetized wire captures tumor cells
Stanford University bioengineers have designed a method for capturing circulating tumor cells in the blood stream. Their approach [MORE]

Automated Robotic Phlebotomy/Analysis

End to end blood testing device
“. . . researchers at Rutgers University created a device that includes an image-guided venipuncture robot, [MORE]

Nanobots for Treating MRSA

Nanobots grab MRSA bacteria
Using gold nanowires coated with platelets and red blood cells, bioengineers at the University of California in [MORE]

“Plug and Play” Modular Devices

 
Plug and play diagnostic devices
MIT’s “Little Devices Lab” has created a modular approach for making simple and inexpensive diagnostic devices [MORE]

Small CT Machine for Point-of-Care

InReach Cone Beam CT System for Extremity Imaging
Since 1967 when Sir Godfrey Hounsfield introduced the first commercially viable CT scanner, [MORE]

Artificial Mole as Early Cancer Detector

Artificial Mole to Detect Cancer
In animal studies, bioengineers at ETH Zurich (the Swiss Technical Institute in Zurich) have designed an [MORE]

A Highly Accurate Stroke Detector

Cerebrotech Visor
Even within the so-called “golden hour,” stroke detection currently gets low marks. But a California company claims to have [MORE]

“MELISA,” Cell-Phone Based Immuosorbent Assay

MELISA test
The Mobile Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (MELISA) is a means that “accurately measures progesterone levels, a key hormone that [MORE]