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New Maglev Sensor for Food and Healthcare Industries

In the bi-weekly of American Chemical Society, scientists describe about the new special sensor that utilizes magnetic levitation, also known as maglev.

29 Jun 2010

Freescale Develops Telemonitoring System to Run Health Screenings at Home

Freescale Semiconductor and Pounce Consulting have jointly developed a user-friendly portable telemonitoring reference design that enables physicians and patients to perform routine health screenings remotely or at home.

16 Jun 2010

Chronix Biomedical to Launch Cancer Disease Tracking Service

Chronix Biomedical will be introducing a novel disease monitoring and detection service for the cancer research community during the forthcoming 2010 ASCO Annual Meeting.

14 Jun 2010

FDA Approves Optical Imaging Agent Cysview of GE Healthcare

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the US has approved hexaminolevulinate HCl (Cysview) technique for detecting the bladder’s non-muscle-invasive papillary cancer for patients with suspected or bladder cancer, according to GE Healthcare, a sub division of General Electric Company.

9 Jun 2010

NanoString Receives International Quality Standard for Medical Devices

A privately held life sciences vendor NanoStrings that markets a total solution for identifying and counting large target molecules sets in biological samples, has been awarded the ISO 13485:2003 certification that is a medical devices quality standard recognized internationally.

11 May 2010

UCLA’s Digital Sensor Array-Based Miniature Telemedicine Microscope

UCLA engineer Aydogan Ozcan has developed a miniature microscope for telemedicine applications based on the Lensless Ultra-wide-field Cell Monitoring Array platform (LUCAS), which is an imaging technology.

27 Apr 2010

TUM and Fujitsu Collaborate on Biosensor Chip for Medical Diagnosis

A biosensor chip capable of identifying proteins that are unique to particular diseases has been jointly developed by the Fujitsu Laboratories of Japan and scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM).

From Fujitsu Services Limited 27 Apr 2010

Near-IR Pulses to Detect Nanocages Injected in Blood for Medical Applications

Small metallic nanocages and pulsed laser-based ultrasensitive medical imaging methodology are likely to facilitate the detection and treatment of cancer at an early stage.

16 Apr 2010

Summary of Electromechanical and Semiconductive/MEMS Sensors’ Use in Medical Devices

Piribo.com offers an overview of the utilization of active and passive semiconductive/MEMS electromechanical sensors for the Class II and Class III categories of medical devices in a 425 page report by titled ‘Medical Device Sensors Technologies and Global Markets.’

2 Apr 2010