Research

Fiendishly clever scientists from San Diego have described a microrocket, which would exploit low pH conditions to elicit drive from a chemical reaction. Suggested applications on a postcard please.

MIT Spin-out company MicroCHIPS has developed an implantable drug delivery device, which is currently targeting delivery of teriparatide in post menopausal osteoporotic women.

New research may pave the way for all-metal hip prostheses to rise phoenix-like from the ashes.

Researchers have developed a new system for delivering drugs to the back of the eye that could offer more effective treatment while sparing patients the excruciating routine of having drugs injected into their eyes by syringe every six to eight weeks.

Scientists at Berkeley have decoded the imagined speech of a patient in what could be a breakthrough in understanding and utilisation of brainwaves in speech impaired patients.

Obvious innit? Researchers have proposed a technological solution which could provide energy for implantable devices such as pacemakers from the motion of the heart itself.

Commercial production of a new device that measures melanoma using photoacoustics, or laser-induced ultrasound, will soon be available to scientists and academia for cancer studies.

Cook Medical, is to invest up to €16.5m over four years creating highly skilled positions in Research and Development activities at its Limerick site, with Government support through IDA Ireland.

Northwestern University has issued a press release about recent work published in December in Science relating to the formation of graphitic carbon, which has been identified as a naturally forming lubricant in metal-on-metal bearing surfaces in hip prostheses.

Zimmer’s new Beijing-based centre reinforces company’s focus on innovations for the Asian market.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has unveiled proposals under which patient data could be sold to the private sector in order to be used in the quest for better and more accurately targeted medical technologies.

Kensey Nash Corporation has been awarded a two-year, $1.9 million grant to investigate the use of a bioadhesive surgical mesh for applications in tendon repair procedures.

Uppsala University in Sweden adds to our understanding of bone healing and especially the potential place for BMP2 in this interesting academic press release from the institution.

Researchers report that ionized plasmas like those in neon lights and plasma TVs not only can sterilize water, but make it antimicrobial for as long as a week after treatment.

Research from Johns Hopkins shows that by delivering anticancer drugs into breast ducts via the nipple more potent drug concentration can be delivered with fewer adverse effects.

Late breaking clinical trial results from testing of cangrelor, an investigational intravenous antiplatelet, showed patients can be “bridged” from the time that their physicians stop their oral antiplatelet drugs until they undergo cardiac surgery.