Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical
Helping medical device manufactures navigate the new EU MDR
Trelleborg and other industry experts explain the material-related requirements of the MDR and how to achieve them.
Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical offers device manufacturers that supply products to Europe a free to download webinar about the upcoming Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and how this specification can be met.
The EU MDR takes effect May 26, 2021 and aims to protect patients from risks posed by medical products. For manufacturers in the Americas selling such products globally, compliance with international regulations is complex, with requirements varying significantly depending on the intended use, the type of contact with the patient and its duration.
February 2021 US Cutting Tool Orders up 3.3% from January 2021
USCTI/AMT
February 2021 US Cutting Tool Orders up 3.3% from January 2021
The total was up 3.3% from January’s $144.8 million and down 17.1% when compared with the $180.3 million reported for February 2020.
AMT – The Association for Manufacturing Technology. This total, as reported by companies participating in the Cutting Tool Market Report collaboration, was up 3.3% from January’s $144.8 million and down 17.1% when compared with the $180.3 million reported for February 2020. With a year-to-date total of $294.3 million, 2021 is down 20.2% when compared to February 2020. Please note, AMT and USCTI have revised monthly press release totals back to 2015 to provide the best possible data possible to the community.
Adapted from ACS Sensors 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c00139
Touch-based sweat glucose sensor
Many people with diabetes endure multiple, painful finger pricks each day to measure their blood glucose. Now, researchers reporting in
ACS Sensors have developed a device that can measure glucose in sweat with the touch of a fingertip, and then a personalized algorithm provides an accurate estimate of blood glucose levels.
According to the American Diabetes Association, more than 34 million children and adults in the U.S. have diabetes. Although self-monitoring of blood glucose is a critical part of diabetes management, the pain and inconvenience caused by finger-stick blood sampling can keep people from testing as often as they should. Scientists have developed ways to measure glucose in sweat, but because levels of the sugar are much lower than in blood, they can vary with a person s sweat rate and skin properties. As a result, the glucose level in sweat usually doesn t accurately
Hanjun Hwangbo, Hyeongjin Lee
4D printing enables vascularization, bone tissue regeneration, spinal fusion
Researchers are working with 4D printing to create a biomimetic microchannel scaffold made of collagen and hydroxyapatite.
Spinal fusion is frequently performed to restore spinal stability in patients with spinal diseases, such as spinal stenosis, vertebral fractures, progressive deformities, and instability. In the past two decades, there has been marked increase in the number of people over 65 years in age who have needed spinal fusion surgery.
While autogenous bone grafts have long been considered the reference standard for spinal fusion, painful pseudoarthrosis remains a leading cause of poor clinical outcomes. Many researchers have consequently focused on trying to create a biomimetic scaffold that induces vascularization to enable bone tissue regeneration and spinal fusion.
WSU
Advancing 3D printing to aid tissue replacement
Success of this method in manufacturing functional tissues relies heavily on how well the fabricated structures mimic the native tissues.
Gozen, George and Joan Berry associate professor in the
Washington State University School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and a team of researchers have developed a unique scaffolding material for engineered tissues that can be fine-tuned for the tricky business of growing natural tissue. They report on their research in the journal,
Bioprinting. The team also includes researchers from WSU s Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering as well as from the University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA), Morehouse College, and University of Rochester. The lead author is Mahmoud Amr, who received his PhD at UTSA.