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- 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.
- 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 […]
- Adaptive DBS: The Next Leap in Closed-Loop Neurostimulation 30 June, 2026Neurostimulators are moving beyond fixed, always-on stimulation toward therapies that can sense what is happening in the nervous system and adjust in real time. In this episode, we explore adaptive deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders with Dr. Simon Little, associate professor at the University of California San Francisco.
- Technology 29 June, 2026As we recognize Men’s Health Month, what minimally invasive medical device, first approved by the FDA in 2002, uses tiny radioactive seeds implanted directly into the prostate to deliver targeted radiation therapy for prostate cancer?
- New Velocity Group Plant to Feature Cleanroom-Based Injection Molding for Medical Device Manufacturing 25 June, 2026Velocity Group, an Ohio-based contract manufacturer specializing in high-mix, low- to mid- volume assembly, injection molding and tooling, is opening a new 70,500-square-foot manufacturing facility that triples the company’s production capacity and introduces a highly specialized capability for medical device and life science applications: performing injection molding within a clean room.
- 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 […]
- How Industrial Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Twin Accelerate Innovation in Life Sciences 25 June, 2026Pharmaceutical and life sciences manufacturers are under growing pressure to compress development timelines, from discovery to commercialization, as demographic, technological and geopolitical trends increase the pace of innovation and disruption. In the face of these challenges, many pharmaceutical manufacturers are finding their traditional processes, which are often built on fragmented data and highly manual workflows, […]
- Biotech Startup Turns to Space to Manufacture Artificial Retinas 16 June, 2026A biotechnology startup is harnessing the unique space environment to manufacture artificial retinas that could one day restore vision to the millions of people blinded by macular degeneration.
- WellSpan Health and Philips Form Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Innovation and Research 6 June, 2026Royal Philips has formed a strategic alliance with WellSpan Health, a healthcare system in Central Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland. The seven-year alliance establishes a new research and innovation collaboration and brings new advanced imaging and diagnostics technology products and platforms to patients across the region. The alliance is the latest addition to WellSpan’s growing innovation […]
- 3D Printing Could Change How Cancer Drugs Reach Tumors 4 June, 2026New research offers hope that cancer drug therapies packaged in 3D printed carriers could deliver medication directly to tumors while reducing many of the side effects that cancer patients endure.
- Bringing Digital Innovation from Lab to Life in Cardiology 3 June, 2026BIOTRONIK, die Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and the German Heart Center Foundation have formed a research and innovation partnership focused on advancing digital and translational cardiology. The collaboration brings together world-class clinical cardiovascular expertise at Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC) with BIOTRONIK’s strength in active cardiac devices, artificial intelligence, and connected health technologies.
- Six Universities Awarded Minus K Negative-Stiffness Vibration Isolators 3 June, 2026Minus K Technology has awarded passive mechanical negative-stiffness low-frequency vibration isolators to six universities through its Educational Giveaway program. The company has granted more than $125,000 of its patented, passive mechanical negative-stiffness low-frequency vibration isolators to U.S. universities since 2014.
- Next-Generation Materials for Medical Devices: From Smart Polymers to Biodegradable Composites 13 May, 2026Medical device innovation is increasingly driven by advances in materials science. This 60-minute webinar from the editors of Medical Design Briefs will examine the latest breakthroughs shaping the future of device design — from shape-memory alloys like nitinol that enable minimally invasive procedures to high-performance polymers such as polyimide that offer exceptional strength, flexibility, and […]
