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Heat-Conducting Spider Silk

Spider Study
Here’s an example of discovery being the mother of invention. Mechanical engineers at Iowa State University have shown [MORE]

Device Innovation Center

This past April, the Global Center for Medical Innovation, a not-for-profit service organization in Atlanta, opened a comprehensive R&D [MORE]

The Robot in Your Blood

Stanford Wireless Device
“We’re going to see things no one has ever seen before.  Just think about it,” exclaimed “Cora Peterson” [MORE]

Weight Loss Devices

ReShape Duo Product
There are obese people (representing one third of the US adult population) and a smaller number of [MORE]

Nanoparticle Hemostatic Coating

MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology has created a nanoscale biological coating that, when applied to surgical sponges, can quickly [MORE]

Magnetic Beads Transport Chip

Combining features of microfluidic devices, magnetic beads, and technology more typically applied to random access memory of computers, engineers [MORE]

Electronic Jeans?

Cotton Transisitor
Coating layers of nanoparticles over cotton fibers, researchers at Cornell and in France and Italy have created a [MORE]

Single Molecule Motor

It’s a small step to be sure, but engineers at Tufts University have demonstrated that a single molecule of [MORE]

Monitoring Tear Glucose

Not long after Banting and Macleod won a 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering insulin, scientists began investigating tears as [MORE]

Smart, Light-Sensing Polymer for Medical Devices

UC San Diego Smart Polymer
Researchers at the University of California-San Diego have developed what they call a “smart” polymer [MORE]

Hydrogel Scaffold for Burn Healing

Hydrogel
Johns Hopkins University researchers intended to design a hydrogel loaded with stem cells to promote wound healing, but their [MORE]

Continuous Glucose Monitoring Now in Trials

Medtronic "Enlite"
Last November, Medtronic began clinical trials of its “Enlite” sensor that continuously monitors glucose levels over six days.  [MORE]

Eight Tools for Inventing Medical Devices

Transistor for Plastic Electronics
You might go back and look in your Christmas stocking in case you missed any of [MORE]

A Pacemaker for Pain

SPR Products
Recently, surgeons at Carolinas Medical Center implanted a nerve stimulating device in a 76 year old post-stoke patient [MORE]