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Prospects for Nanotechnology and 3-D Printing

Neon Pump
Nanotechnology, materials science, 3-D printing, molecular diagnostics, regenerative medicine, robotics, et al—all fields that Tagline tracks—are all the [MORE]

“Microfluidic Vortex” Lab-on-a-Chip

Purdue Biosensor
It works like a cream separator, but it relies on laser light and electric fields to separate particles [MORE]

New Polymer for Medical Devices

Multifunction Polymer
In manufacturing drug delivery polymers, the trick is in creating a material that can stand up [MORE]

Printing Implantable Cartilage

Cartilage Printer
Combining ink jet printing and electrospinning technologies, bioengineers at Wake Forest University’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine have [MORE]

“Harmonic” Scanning for Skin Cancer

thzfreq Radiation
Terahertz radiation falls in the electromagtic spectrum between microwaves and infrared and has some properties of each.  [MORE]

Polyurethane Coated Tracheal Stent

Fraunhofer Stent
The windpipe isn’t s simple tube; it contains cells that purify inhaled air.  So, it is important [MORE]

Robotic/Bionic Prosthetic

iWALK
According to this piece, “iWalk (Bedford, MA) has created a system that is the world’s first proven bionic intervention that [MORE]

Unzipping DNA

One of the, as yet, unfulfilled dreams of gene therapy is to “unzip” a section of targeted DNA and [MORE]

Hyperspectral Imaging in Medicine

Satellite cameras, hovering 27,000 miles above earth can scan surface objects in great detail and in color by means [MORE]

Results of Artificial Pancreas Human Trial

Animas Corporation (West Chester, PA, part of Johnson & Johnson) has conducted a non randomized, uncontrolled feasibility study of [MORE]

Overview of Wireless Sensors

Micro Sensors
Though wearable, implantable and ingestible medical devices appear to be recent technology, they have a long history dating [MORE]

Winners of the 2012 Medical Design Excellence Awards

Freedom Portable Driver
Among the 26 winners shown in this piece are a wearable ventilator, the world’s smallest heart-lung machine, [MORE]

Guidewire Development for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Neometrics Guidewires
One familiar assumption about the future of medicine is that any procedure which can be done on an [MORE]

Automating Synthetic Bone-Making process

Lego Robots for Building Bone
Fabricating artificial bone is a process that resembles candle-making—by repeated dippings.  To offset this labor-intensive [MORE]