News tagged with implant surface

Cobblestones fool innate immunity

Coating the surface of an implant such as a new hip or pacemaker with nanosized metallic particles reduces the risk of rejection, and researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, can now explain why: they fool the ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nanotech coating could lead to better brain implants to treat diseases

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical and materials engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a nanotech coating for brain implants that helps the devices operate longer and could improve treatment for ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Hearing aid gap: Millions who could benefit remain untreated

Though an estimated 26.7 million Americans age 50 and older have hearing loss, only about one in seven uses a hearing aid, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers.

Medicine & Health / Health

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Inspired by steel, nanomanufacturing gets wear-resistant carbide tip

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IBM Research - Zurich have fabricated an ultrasharp silicon carbide tip possessing such high strength ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Archive of failed joint replacements provides tips to building a better hip replacement

A study by Hospital for Special Surgery researchers has provided the first comprehensive look at just how metal-on-metal total hip replacements are failing in patients around the country. Made possible by what is thought ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Flipping a light switch in the cell: Quantum dots used for targeted neural activation

By harnessing quantum dots—tiny light-emitting semiconductor particles a few billionths of a meter across—researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have developed a new and vastly more targeted ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Smallest tools could give biggest results in bone repair

When William Murphy works with some of the most powerful tools in biology, he thinks about making tools that can fit together. These constructions sound a bit like socket wrenches, which can be assembled to turn a half-inch ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanodiamond coatings safe for implants: study

Nanodiamonds designed to toughen artificial joints also might prevent the inflammation caused when hardworking metal joints shed debris into the body, according to an early study published this week in the ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop novel drug delivery system

Long duration, controllable drug delivery is of wide interest to medical researchers and clinicians, particularly those seeking to improve treatment for patients with chronic pain or to prevent cancer recurrence after surgery. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New technology gives implants a protective covering

A technology developed by labseed, an EPFL spin-off, could prevent most breast implant rejections. The final product should be commercially available  as early as 2013.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electronic tattoo monitors brain, heart and muscles (w/ video)

Imagine if there were electronics able to prevent epileptic seizures before they happen. Or electronics that could be placed on the surface of a beating heart to monitor its functions. The problem is that ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Study finds leukemia cells are 'bad to the bone'

University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have discovered new links between leukemia cells and cells involved in bone formation, offering a fresh perspective on how the blood cancer progresses and raising the possibility ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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