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5 Ws: Materials
A newly designed wearable magnetic metamaterial could help make MRI scans crisper, faster, and cheaper.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D bioprinting using bioink from engineered stem cells enables treatment of myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular diseases.
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Briefs: Materials
The bandage captures and holds a pro-healing molecule at the site of a bone break to accelerate and improve the natural healing process.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The lenses enable the painless diagnosis or early detection of ocular diseases including glaucoma.
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Briefs: Wearables
The tool diagnoses a stroke based on abnormalities in a person’s speech and facial movements.
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Briefs: Wearables
The patch enables unobtrusive drug delivery through the skin for the management of skin cancers.
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Briefs: Medical
The handheld printer deposits sheets of skin to cover large burn wounds and its bio-ink accelerates healing.
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INSIDER: Research Lab
Twisted nanoscale semiconductors manipulate light in a new way. This effect could be harnessed to accelerate the discovery and development of life-saving medicines as well as photonic...
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INSIDER: Medical
Demand for sensitive and selective electronic biosensors — analytical devices that monitor a target of interest in real time — is growing for a wide range of applications....
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Special Reports: Packaging & Sterilization
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - February 2022
How virtual, cloud-based technologies are powering the next industrial revolution...transforming plastic parts into high-value products...designing optics for medical 3D printing. Read these...

Briefs: Medical
The device combines with body power to treat tendon disease and damage, and sports injuries.
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Briefs: Medical
The sensor technology could also be used to create clothing that detects a variety of pathogens and other threats.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The handheld printer deposits sheets of skin to cover large burn wounds.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The built-in nanosensors glow to alert patients when a wound is not healing properly.
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Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Microneedles offer an intriguing alternative to the drug-delivery devices we know and don't love.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
JILA scientists have boosted the sensitivity of their decade-old frequency comb breathalyzer a thousandfold, enabling it to detect additional biomarkers of disease —...
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Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - November 2021
In this new report from the editors of Medical Design Briefs and Tech Briefs magazines, discover how the latest advances in 3D printing, machining, molding and more are changing the way...

INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Medical sensing technology has taken great strides in recent years, with the development of wearable devices that can track pulse, brain function, biomarkers in...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Although measuring the electrical activity of neurons is useful in many disciplines, making durable neural interfacing brain chip implants with negligible adverse...
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Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
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Medical Robotics - September 2021
Self-propelled nanobots that deliver drugs inside the human body...novel sensors that improve the safety and precision of industrial robots...a dynamic hydrogel material that makes building soft robotic devices...

INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A study by researchers at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health shows that inexpensive and convenient devices such as silicone wristbands can be used to yield quantitative air...
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INSIDER: Medical
When you pick up a balloon, the pressure to keep hold of it is different from what you would exert to grasp a jar. And now engineers at MIT and elsewhere have a way to precisely...
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
By capturing more cancer cells than blood draw screening, this device could help doctors understand a tumor’s biology and make decisions about treatment.
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Briefs: Energy
A flexible device worn on the wrist harvests heat energy from the human body to monitor health.
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Briefs: Wearables
The patch can replace blood draws to test for antibodies that signal a viral or bacterial infection such as SARS-CoV-2.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The soft, stretchy skin patch can monitor cardiovascular signals and multiple biochemical levels at the same time.
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Briefs: Wearables
Gait data and machine learning help to monitor and predict disease progression.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This could make possible embedded devices like a spinal cord-stimulating unit with a battery-powered magnetic transmitter on a wearable belt.
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Briefs: Materials
The gel works even at freezing temperatures and contains natural antimicrobial compounds derived from durian husk.
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