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- Exploring Simulation-First Prototyping of Medical Devices 12 August, 2026Virtual twins are reducing reliance on costly bench testing and early-stage prototypes. By simulating device performance across populations and environments, developers are shortening cycles and improving safety before physical builds. In this episode, Dr. Amanda Randles, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, looks at how simulation is changing medical device development.
- Clinical Trial Design in the Era of AI 7 August, 2026Clinical trials are expensive, slow, and risky. AI promises to improve study planning, patient recruitment, endpoint selection, and evidence review, while also helping teams extract and summarize complex clinical data. But in regulated healthcare environments, reliability is critical. In this episode, Ome Ogbru, CEO of AINGENS, examines how AI can support clinical trial workflows, why […]
- Stretchable AI Patch Computes on Your Body, No Server Required 6 August, 2026A skin-like computing patch can analyze health data using artificial intelligence in an unprecedented way. Unlike today’s wearable devices, it carries out its AI computations directly on the body, in mere milliseconds, without relying on a wireless connection.
- Teleflex Medical OEM Acquired, Launches as INGENYX 6 August, 2026INGENYX, formerly Teleflex Medical OEM, has launched as an independent company following the completion of its acquisition by private equity firm Montagu and Kohlberg and carve-out from Teleflex Incorporated (NYSE: TFX). The transaction was first announced on December 9, 2025.
- Two Teleoperated Humanoid Robots Complete Live Surgery 5 August, 2026For the first time, two teleoperated humanoid robots have been used to complete two surgeries during a preclinical trial, researchers recently reported in the journal Nature. The work is the result of a collaboration between a team of engineers and a team of surgeons at the University of California San Diego.
- Technology 29 July, 2026As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday this month, which implantable medical device is often credited as one of the first commercially successful products to combine advanced electronics, long-life batteries, and hermetic packaging into a life-sustaining system?
- Medtech M&A’s Flight to Quality: Why Buyers Are Making Fewer, Bigger Bets 28 July, 2026Medical Design Briefs: PMCF's report shows medtech M&A volume fell to 83 announced transactions in Q1 2026, down from 118 a year earlier, yet deal value remained concentrated in a few major strategic acquisitions. What does that tell you about buyer behavior in today's medtech market? Bryan Hughes: It tells us buyers have become far […]
- Edge AI Is Bringing Medical Devices Closer to the Patient 24 July, 2026At a recent industry panel, engineers from Ambient Scientific, Arduino, and SiMa.ai made the case that real-time medical intelligence has to live on the device — not in the cloud.
- Custom-Fit AI Prosthetic Hand Learns Each User’s Muscle Patterns 22 July, 2026Researchers have developed a personalized prosthetic-control system that combines 3D-printed wearable technology, flexible magnetic sensors, and artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret an individual user’s intended hand and wrist movements in real time.
- Ultra-Low-Power Processor Brings Real-Time AI to Wearable Medical Devices 20 July, 2026Ambient Scientific has developed an artificial intelligence processor designed to run advanced health-monitoring algorithms directly on wearable and other battery-powered medical devices, potentially allowing the devices to detect dangerous conditions without waiting for data to be transmitted to a smartphone or cloud server.
- Rapid Diagnostics for Extreme and Low-Resource Environments 14 July, 2026Rapid diagnostics can determine whether care moves quickly or stalls in disaster zones, military operations, rural clinics, and global health settings where conventional laboratory infrastructure is unavailable. In this episode, Dr. Paul Yager of the University of Washington discusses the engineering behind low-cost point-of-care diagnostics, including microfluidics, paper-based systems, smartphone-enabled readouts, and lab-on-a-chip platforms designed […]
- Resilient Device Design for Harsh Conditions 14 July, 2026Devices in extreme settings must withstand vibration, heat, cold, humidity, and physical shock. Drawing lessons from battlefield medicine, polar research, and humanitarian crises, Emily Shaffer, Market Manager for Healthcare at Covestro, and Dr. David Duncan, president at MonuMedical, highlight design approaches that create more durable and universally reliable technologies. Subscribe to the Medical Design Briefs podcast […]
- How Heterogeneous Integration Is Changing Medical Manufacturing: Workflows, Assembly Tools, Metrology, and Inline Inspection 9 July, 2026Medical device manufacturing is undergoing a structural shift. As devices become smaller with broader functionality, traditional approaches to assembling electronics are no longer sufficient. Increasingly, performance, durability, and reliability are dictated not just by design, but by how that design is manufactured.
- Making Telemedicine Work in Low-Connectivity Environments 8 July, 2026Telehealth is only as strong as its connection. In this episode, Kelly Collins, Managing Director of SureAdhere by Dimagi, discusses how healthcare teams can deliver, document, and coordinate care in low-connectivity environments — from rural clinics to global health programs — using offline-capable mobile tools, decision support, and delayed data synchronization.
- AI-Designed Shape-Shifting Microneedles Aid Diabetic Wound Healing 8 July, 2026An artificial intelligence (AI)-guided microneedle patch actively changes shape at physiological temperature (37 °C) to help close wounds while delivering regenerative therapy and antibacterial protection.
- Design for Miniaturization: Meeting the Demand for Smaller, Smarter, and More Integrated Devices 1 July, 2026The push for more compact, high-performance medical devices is transforming design and manufacturing strategies. This 60-minute webinar from the editors of Medical Design Briefs will explore the engineering and reliability challenges of creating ultra-compact systems — from minimally invasive surgical tools powered by precision micro motors to next-generation wearable sensors. Experts will examine advances in […]
- Why the Next Medical Breakthrough May Come from Space 1 July, 2026What if the future of vision restoration depends on manufacturing in microgravity? LambdaVision is using the International Space Station to produce artificial retinas made from hundreds of layers of light-activated protein — a process that is difficult to perfect on Earth because gravity can disrupt layer uniformity. In this episode, Dr. Nicole Wagner, LambdaVision CEO […]
- Videos of the Month 1 July, 2026How Arizona State University Is Putting Muscle into Robotics Researchers at Arizona State University are developing bioinspired robotic “muscles” that aim to enable robots to do much more than their motorized counterparts. The team’s research goes beyond designing bioinspired muscles for individual, specific tasks. Watch this video to learn more. Visit Here
- Why the U.S. and China Are Taking Different Paths on Pig-to-Human Organs 30 June, 2026As xenotransplantation moves from headline-making firsts toward the possibility of regulated clinical use, the question is no longer just whether gene-edited pig organs can work. It is also how they will be reviewed, standardized, reimbursed, and scaled. This spring underscored that divide. In the United States, FDA clearance of the first human heart xenotransplant trial […]
- How to Avoid Chemical Characterization Pitfalls in Medical Devices 25 June, 2026Medical device chemical characterization testing per ISO 10993-18 is often the leading source of delay, cost overrun, and regulatory questions in a manufacturer’s biocompatibility program. Problematic study outcomes tend to be associated with a few recurring issues, with most difficulties arising not from the analytical chemistry itself, but rather from key decisions made throughout the […]
