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Researchers Regenerate A Living Organ For The First Time

A team of scientists at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, successfully regenerated a living organ for the very first time — an accomplishment that could prove groundbreaking in the field of tissue regeneration.

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  Powering Medical Devices With Heartbeats And Breathing Lungs
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  FDA Issues New Guidance On Communication During Device Reviews
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  7 Steps To Survive Your Next Device Compliance Audit

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  Will Dissolvable Electronics Revolutionize Implantable Device Design?

  Researchers at Iowa State University recently reported success in using a particular type of degradable polymer as the platform for dissolvable electronics, a development that could significantly impact the design of dissolvable electronic medical devices in the future.

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  Detecting Cancer With A Simple Blood Test

  Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised an effective way to detect the presence of solid cancers using a simple blood sample, according to a recently published report.

ARTICLES

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  Choosing The Right Resin For Your Design — A Reference Guide

  There are more than 85,000 commercial options for plastic materials listed in materials databases, and within those, there are 45 polymer families which can be broadly classified into two categories: thermosets and thermoplastics.

FROM THE EDITOR

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  The Toxic Killers Of Innovation — And 3 Simple Rules For Avoiding Them

  Meet Pete Rosencrans. Pete's an R&D design engineer at a medical device maker, and he’s been tasked with overseeing the research, ideation, and design for a new medical device. He’s faced with gathering input from numerous stakeholders and incorporating it into a final design that pleases everyone. Oh, and his boss wants the device to look great and be fully functional within a matter of months. Sound familiar?

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  Photonics And The Future Of Medicine

  Photonics West serves as the perennial indicator of market trends for the photonics and optics industries. At this year’s event, held last month in San Francisco, one of the pervasive themes I observed in both the technical conference and the exhibition was the increasing role photonics and optics are playing in the development of advanced biomedical technologies. That trend is poised to continue well into the future. 

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  3D Printing In Medicine: 4 Questions That Need To Be Answered

  Almost everyone would agree that 3D printing has a bright future in the medical device industry. So what’s holding it back? This article poses four questions the industry must answer before 3D printing can reach its full potential in medicine.

INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES

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  7 Steps To Survive Your Next Device Compliance Audit

  Practical tips for successfully meeting global regulations and notified body expectations

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Micro Optics

Ross Optical’s line of micro optics includes achromats, plano convex lenses, and bi-convex lenses. They’re typically used in compact or miniature optical systems, medical devices, and in optical fibers. These optical components allow for shorter focal lengths in compact systems and feature diameters from sub-millimeter to 6mm.

Color CMOS USB Camera: SPOT Idea

These digital microscope CMOS cameras come in 1.3, 3.0, and 5.0 megapixel resolution versions. They feature high speed readout, 12-bit image capture, Correct Color Technology for vivid color enhancement, an external trigger output, and more.

CMOS Sensor Endoscopes

In the construction of endoscopes with distal end CMOS sensors, Precision Optics Corporation (POC) has utilized our proprietary micro lens design and manufacturing capabilities to build camera assemblies using numerous different CMOS sensors including the OmniVision OV6930 and the Awaiba Naneye 1 mm. These are just some of the design configurations we have manufactured and POC has the in-house ability to custom manufacture to your specific needs and specifications.

Tergajet: Low-Foaming Powdered Detergent

Concentrated to save you money. Phosphate-free, biodegradable, and readily disposable. Low foaming heavy duty detergent for high performance results. Free rinsing to give you reliable results and no interfering residues. Ideal for under-counter and floor standing lab washing machines.

Liquid Silicon Rubber Injection Molding

Liquid silicone rubber (LSR) molding is a thermoset process that mixes a two-component compound together, which is then heat cured in the mold with a platinum catalyst to produce a final part. Liquid Silicon Rubber parts are formed through an injection-molding process similar to that of conventional plastic injection molding with one major difference — the material delivery system is cooled and the mold is heated. Liquid silicone rubber possesses thermal, chemical and electrical resistance, plus biocompatibility. Also, Liquid Silicon Rubber parts can withstand sterilization while maintaining physical properties at extreme temperatures.

Custom Manufactured Lenses

Our customers design lenses to meet their system requirements. Our expertise is determining the most efficient way to manufacture them. Depending on attributes and quantity, our manufacturing engineers will determine whether to use a conventional, CNC or hybrid method to make the lenses.

LATEST HEADLINES

• Fast, High Definition, Low Dose: GE Healthcare Announces FDA Clearance Of Revolution CT

  GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, recently announced U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance of its Revolution CT^, which will enable physicians to diagnose even the most challenging patients. 

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  Researchers Regenerate A Living Organ For The First Time

  A team of scientists at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, successfully regenerated a living organ for the very first time — an accomplishment that could prove groundbreaking in the field of tissue regeneration.

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  Powering Medical Devices With Heartbeats And Breathing Lungs

  An interdisciplinary group of researchers from Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Arizona have developed a flexible medical device capable of capturing enough electrical power from the natural motions of a beating heart or a breathing lung to power pacemakers, defibrillators, and heart-rate monitors.

• Reverse Medical Corporation Announces FDA IDE Approval For The BARREL Vascular Reconstruction Device For The Treatment Of Intracranial Bifurcation Aneurysms

  Reverse Medical Corporation recently announced FDA IDE approval for clinical investigation of their BARREL Vascular Reconstruction Device (VRD). 

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  Boston Scientific Announces FDA Approval Of Innovative New Defibrillators And Heart Failure Devices

  Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) has received FDA approval for its latest generation of defibrillators and heart failure devices designed to advance patient care.

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  Intelligent Prosthetic Liners Could Ease Pain For Lower Limb Amputees

  A new device could help to relieve the pain and discomfort experienced by thousands of amputees as a result of poorly fitting replacement lower limbs. 

• Integrating Consumer Wearable Health Devices Will Drive Healthcare Big Data Adoption

  ​This year close to 42 million wearable wireless sports, fitness and wellness devices will ship worldwide.

• GSK Receives US Approval For Once-Weekly Type 2 Diabetes Treatment, Tanzeum (Albiglutide)

  GlaxoSmithKline plc recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Tanzeum (albiglutide) for injection, for subcutaneous use, as a once-weekly treatment for type 2 diabetes. 

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