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From Medical Design & Outsourcing

• Icon reports more expectation-beating results
  Medtech, pharma and biotech development outsourcer Icon continues to beat the Street when it comes to its results. Dublin, Ireland–based Icon (Nasdaq:ICLR) said today that it earned $78.5 million, or $1.43 per share, off $455.1 million in sales for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2017 – up from $74.3 million, or $1.33 per share, in […]
• NIH offers $1 million prize in human retina prototype competition
  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has created a $1 million prize competition to challenge people to build functioning human retina prototypes to help in the fight against blindness. The National Eye Institute 3D Retina Organoid Challenge is designed to create lab-grown human retinas from stem cells that replicate the structure, organization and function of […]
• Zeiss announces partnership with software outfit Xnovo Technology
  Zeiss Microscopy recently announced an exclusive strategic partnership agreement with Xnovo Technology, a Danish company developing software-based 3D X-ray imaging and analysis products. Zeiss and Xnovo have already been working together for two years. The strategic partnership, announced earlier this month, is meant to advance and expand the laboratory-based diffraction contrast tomography technique on the Zeiss […]
• This smartphone case monitors blood glucose on the go
  University of California San Diego engineers have created a smartphone case that, when paired with an app, can make it easier for people with diabetes to track and record blood glucose levels on the go. “Integrating blood glucose sensing into a smartphone would eliminate the need for patients to carry a separate device,” Patrick Mercier, […]
• MD&M West: 10 technologies you should know
  MD&M West is one of the largest medical device manufacturing events in the world, so it’s easy to get lost on the show floor. Even if you were in Anaheim, Calif., for the event last week, you may have missed a lot. From a new robotics insights display from Rethink Robotics to a disinfectant-resistant plastic […]
• Report: Amazon gearing up for entry into medical supplies biz
  Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) is looking to up the ante in its medical supplies business and turn the unit into a major supplier to US hospitals and clinics, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The online mega retailer has initiated a trial of a new system testing to see if it can use its Amazon Business site to supply […]
• Rethink Robotics wants to make advanced manufacturing smarter: Here’s how
  Rethink Robotics is touting a value-add to its Sawyer manufacturing robots: a new feature called Intera Insights that displays key performance indicators (KPIs) on a customizable on-robot display, as well as on smart devices on the same network. Think easy access to metrics including cycle time, part count, speed and force. “Instead of just having it be ones and […]
• Spectrum Plastics Group buys Apex Resource Technologies
  Spectrum Plastics Group (Alpharetta, Ga.) is expanding its specialty products and design engineering offerings through its acquisition of Apex Resource Technologies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in today’s announcement. Apex has more than 60 people at its 45,000-square-foot facility in Pittsfield, Mass., and is a full-service design engineering, tooling and injection molding operation. […]
• Could this Eastman polymer improve medical device housing durability?
  Specialty plastics provider Eastman used the recent MD&M West to tout the ability of its MXF221 copolyester to hold up to repeated application of hospital disinfectants. Eastman officials think MXF221 could be a new option for medical device manufacturers – especially because a cracked housing could endanger the electronics inside expensive equipment including ultrasound and […]
• Ultrasound imaging and blood tests could catch liver cancer in early stages
  Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern have recently discovered that combining ultrasound images with blood tests that test for high alpha fetoprotein (AFP) levels can improve detection of early-stage liver cancer by 40%. There are about 42,220 new liver cancer diagnoses and about 30,200 will die from it per year. It affects more men […]
• MasterControl thinks it can speed up validation: Here’s how
  MasterControl officials are touting cloud-based software-as-a-service as a way for medical device manufacturers to speed up validation processes. Their first validation excellence tool (VxT) involves risk-based software validation. The VxT — which MasterControl (Salt Lake City) showed off last week at MD&M West in Anaheim, Calif. — is a value-add on top of MasterCloud’s software solutions. […]