News tagged with medical engineering

Engineering a safer world

Innovations in software and technology are creating increasingly complex systems: cars that park themselves; medical devices that automatically deliver drugs; and smartphones with the computing power of desktop ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mechanical properties and microstructure of cranial and beak bones of the woodpecker and the lark

Woodpeckers do not experience head injury despite repeated high-speed impacts during pecking at 6-7 m/s and decelerations up to 1,000 g. This biomechanical analysis of woodpecker cranial structures sheds light ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New design techniques enable extremely reliable medical devices

For pacemakers and other implantable medical devices there are three key factors: extreme reliability, small size, and long longevity. In the EU project Desyre, researchers tackle these issues with a new approach: ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Use of microfluidic chips a first in bitumen-gas analysis

A University of Toronto research team has developed a process to analyze the behavior of bitumen in reservoirs using a microfluidic chip, a tool commonly associated with the field of medical diagnostics. The process may reduce ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover how different nanomaterial surfaces affect proteins

A new study led by nanotechnology and biotechnology experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is providing important details on how proteins in our bodies interact with nanomaterials. In their new study, published in the ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop novel drug delivery system

Long duration, controllable drug delivery is of wide interest to medical researchers and clinicians, particularly those seeking to improve treatment for patients with chronic pain or to prevent cancer recurrence after surgery. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers devise new means for creating elastic conductors

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which will contribute to large-scale production of the material for use ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers build transparent, super-stretchy skin-like sensor (w/ video)

Imagine having skin so supple you could stretch it out to more than twice its normal length in any direction - repeatedly - yet it would always snap back completely wrinkle-free when you let go of it. You ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Uncharted territory: Scientists sequence the first carbohydrate biopolymer

(PhysOrg.com) -- DNA and protein sequencing have forever transformed science, medicine, and society. Understanding the structure of these complex biomolecules has revolutionized drug development, medical diagnostics, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Intelligent bed on the way to the marketplace

At the end of May 2011, two "business angels" and a banking institute invested one million Swiss francs in Michael Sauter's company "compliant concept". The successful end to this first round of financing ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Report recommends ways to improve K-12 STEM education, calls on policymakers

State, national, and local policymakers should elevate science education in grades K-12 to the same level of importance as reading and mathematics, says a new report from the National Research Council. The report recommends ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Ultrawideband' could be future of medical monitoring

New research by electrical engineers at Oregon State University has confirmed that an electronic technology called "ultrawideband" could hold part of the solution to an ambitious goal in the future of medicine ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Algorithm for identifying object boundaries in digital images 50,000 times more efficient than predecessor

Determining the boundaries of objects is one of the central problems in computer vision. It's something humans do with ease: We glance out the window and immediately see cars as distinct from the sidewalk ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Rice U. parlays sun's saving grace into autoclave (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University senior engineering students are using the sun to power an autoclave that sterilizes medical instruments and help solve a long-standing health issue for developing countries.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

3-D technology puts young athletes with ACL tears back in game

(PhysOrg.com) -- New technology has made it possible for surgeons to reconstruct Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tears in young athletes without disturbing the growth plate.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0