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2020.01.06 Bioresorbable Patch Offers New Alternative for Arterial Healing When a patient experiences 70 percent or greater stenosis in the carotid artery — a condition that can cause lack of cerebral blood flow, stroke, and in some cases, death — surgeons perform a procedure known as carotid endarterectomy (CEA) to remove the plaque causing the artery stenosis.1,2 The procedure consists of a longitudinal incision made from the common to the internal carotid artery, allowing for removal of the plaque that deposits in the bifurcation. Read More
2019.12.27 New Biomaterials Speed Trend Toward Smaller Medical Devices and Implants Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibers offer performance characteristics that could benefit both patients and surgeons. Read more
Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibers offer performance characteristics that could benefit both patients and surgeons. Read more
2019.12.25 New Silk Materials Can Wrinkle into Detailed Patterns, Then Unwrinkle to Be “Reprinted” Scientists engineer on-demand high-resolution wrinkling for reversible printing and thermal regulation. Read More
2019.11.12 40 Years of Medical Device Implants A silicone manufacturer reflects on the industry’s changes as the company marks 40 years of innovation. Read More
2019.10.25 Fixating on PEEK: The Implant Advantage As a precision machiner of plastics, I’ve found PEEK to be a high performer for medical applications. Here’s why, and what to expect in the future. Read More
2019.07.22 3D-printed resorbable implant technology achieves ISO 13485 certification Medtech startup BellaSeno (Leipzig, Germany) has obtained ISO 13485 certification for the design and additive manufacturing (aka 3D printing) of resorbable implants. As such, it claims to be among only a handful of companies worldwide to offer integrated contract additive manufacturing of implants under the ISO quality management standard specific to medical devices. Read More
2019.06.21 Smooth or Textured: A Lesson in Biocompatibility Tissue response to an implanted device can be influenced by many factors. Read More
2019.06.19 Non-Silver Technology for PP, ABS, and PC Resins Could Help Resist Microbes Evermoin technology from Lotte Advanced Materials offers a new means of protecting against pathogens and fungi. Read More
2019.06.18 Fixating on PEEK: The Implant Advantage t’s difficult to talk about spinal devices today without mentioning the popularity of polyetheretherketone, the thermoplastic more commonly known as PEEK. It was originally ... Read More
2019.06.18 Plastics Joining—Do You Know Your Options? Take a process-neutral approach to solving plastics joining problems. 阅读更多