We know we have a lot of readers that are involved with the development of nanotechnology and its application to medicine. Next month, the newly formed American Society for Nanomedicine will be holding its inaugural conference in Potomac, Maryland, which may well be a good place to meet and discuss...

Wouldn’t you want to know what kinds of bacteria are floating in your operating room? Indeed, detection and identification of microorganisms in ambient air can be useful for clinical and food processing facilities. A collaboration of scientists from six Fraunhofer Institutes has developed a prototype...

MassDevice has published an interviewed with the founder of ConforMIS , a Burlington, Mass company that developed technology to build custom knee implants. ConforMIS recently raised $50 million in investments, which clearly points at a promising future for the company and its devices, at least as far...

Today’s mobile electrical power is typically provided by batteries that have a large number of disadvantages, and in the medical world they only grow more acute. Implanted devices, for example, have a limited lifetime before the batteries inside can’t be recharged any longer, hence the need...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory have developed a robotic arm and sensor system that is capable of performing some amazing sleight of hand tricks. Using a high speed tracking camera and tactile sensors on the fingers, the robot does millisecond bouncing of ping...

Silver has long been used for its antibacterial properties on burns, diabetes wounds, decubitus ulcers and other serious wounds in danger of infection. But there is one major side effect: the same silver can kill fibroblasts that are necessary for wound repair. Now Ankit Agarwal, a postdoc at the University...

At this week’s American Chemical Society’s 238th National Meeting, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented a study about a sensor that can accurately detect the presence of any of the common sweeteners used in food products. The business card size sensor...

At this week’s American Chemical Society’s 238th National Meeting, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented a study about a sensor that can accurately detect the presence of any of the common sweeteners used in food products. The business card size sensor...

Somehow we missed an article in last year’s Contraception , a magazine we read over morning coffee and brioche, that presented findings of a study that tried to identify why condoms break. Beside analyzing broken samples and questionnaires asking those with first hand experience, the researchers...

Somehow we missed an article in last year’s Contraception , a magazine we read over morning coffee and brioche, that presented findings of a study that tried to identify why condoms break. Beside analyzing broken samples and questionnaires asking those with first hand experience, the researchers...

Researchers at Berkeley have been developing a hybrid polymer-protein material that, when stress is introduced into the polymer component, changes the fluorescing properties of the protein structure. By bridging biology and material science at the biochemical level, this research may lead to interesting...