Implantable Device

Primoceler Inc and SCHOTT AG to Join Forces

July 13, 2018

Schott, the specialty glass and glass-ceramics giant, owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation, has entered into an agreement to acquire Primoceler Oy, a Finnish pioneer in glass micro bonding, based in Tampere. Primoceler’s hermetic [more...]

Engineers Receive $1 Million for Implantable System to Detect Lung Cancer

September 17, 2017

Future medical diagnostic tools may get under your skin — literally. An interdisciplinary team of UB engineers, working with Intel Corp. and Garwood Medical Devices, has received a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to develop [more...]

Materials and Microfabrication Processes for Next-generation Brain-machine Devices

November 27, 2016

Implantable devices such as pacemakers, cochlear implants, and deep brain stimulation devices enhance the quality of life for many people. Improving the integration of such devices with the body could enable the next generation of [more...]

Profusa wins $7.5m DARPA Grant for Implantable Biosensors

July 18, 2016

Implantable Bionsensor (Image Credit: Profusa) San Francisco-based tissue-integrated sensor maker Profusa said today it won a $7.5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research Office for the [more...]

Flexible, Dissolvable Silicon Device Promising for Brain Monitoring

May 9, 2016

Thin, flexible neural electrode arrays with fully bioresorbable construction based on patterned silicon nanomembranes (Si NMs) as the conducting component. (Image Credit: The lab of Brian Litt, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University [more...]

Implantable Insulin Pump Now Possible With MEMs Technology

November 15, 2015

MEMS TECHNOLOGY Would you use an implantable insulin Pump? Debiotech is a medical device company, based in Switzerland. The development of innovative medical tech is their main business and, since its inception, the company designed many [more...]

Machining Micro Molds for Medical Devices

September 18, 2015

Machining the micro molds used to make medical devices and components require among the most demanding micro machining applications. A new type of machining platforms is making it possible to machine molds faster, more accurately, and more [more...]

Senseonics Raises $10M for Implanted, Smartphone-connected Glucose Sensor

August 31, 2015

Germantown, Maryland-based continuous glucose monitor device maker Senseonics raised $10 million, according to an SEC filing. The company has not yet responded to a request for comment. Existing investors include Anthem Capital, Delphi [more...]

Introduction to BioMEMS

August 16, 2015

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Author: Albert Folch Helping to educate the new generation of engineers and biologists, Introduction to BioMEMS explains how certain problems in biology and medicine benefit from and often [more...]

Biomedical Microsystems

August 2, 2015

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Author: Ellis Meng Poised to dramatically impact human health, biomedical microsystems (bioMEMS) technologies incorporate various aspects from materials science, biology, chemistry, [more...]

Device Delivers Drugs to Brain Via Remote Control

July 20, 2015

A team of researchers has developed a wireless device the width of a human hair that can be implanted in the brain and activated by remote control to deliver drugs. The technology, demonstrated for the first time in mice, one day may be [more...]

Miniature Pump Regulates Internal Ocular Pressure

July 3, 2015

Cross-section of the eye with the implant. (Image Credit: Fraunhofer EMFT) Elevated or diminished eye pressure impairs our ability to see, and in the worst cases, can even lead to blindness. Until now, there has been no effective long-term [more...]

Ion Pump Implant Gives the Body Its Own Pain Alleviation

May 17, 2015

The device consists of an electronically and ionically conducting polymer electrode inside a fluid reservoir, and an ionically conducting delivery channel leading out to the target region—for example, the spinal cord. The reservoir is [more...]

Microvalves: Enabling a New Technology for Tissue Expansion Systems

April 5, 2015

Figure 1: AeroForm Tissue Expansion System (Image Credit: AirXpanders) Each year, approximately 250,000 women in the U.S. are diagnosed with invasive breast cancer.1As a result, more and more patients with cancer in one or both breasts are [more...]