COMPAMED - The trade fair for suppliers and manufacturers of medical technologies invites you to Düsseldorf / Germany from 12 - 15 November 2018.

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Arriving safely in the laboratory: protective bags for specimen transportation

The transport of clinical samples requires the reliable protection of both the shipped sample and its environment. The right packaging plays a crucial role. We have visited the Versapak Company, which makes –among many other items- protective bags used for the safe transportation of clinical samples.

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Cardiac pacemakers: powerful teamwork in small format

A pacemaker is a technical marvel. For its small size it does incomparable things: it sets the right pace for a sick heart – every single second. In order for it to fulfil its vital function, many components must work together smoothly. Each of them is responsible for a specific task and must also meet special requirements.

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Image: Illustration of hybrid protein nanofibers during their formation; Copyright: Dr. Izabela Firkowska-Boden/FSU Jena

Protein nanofibers: building blocks of future medical technology

Science keeps taking cues from nature. Medical technology also often uses materials from nature or finds inspiration in natural phenomena – as is the case with protein nanofibers. Due to their outstanding properties, a reproduction of this natural building block is especially valuable for medical purposes.

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Image: scientist holding a multiwall plate containing hydrogels with pancreatic islet cells; Copyright: Georgia Tech

Biomaterial particles educate immune system to accept transplanted islets

By instructing key immune system cells to accept transplanted insulin-producing islets, researchers have opened a potentially new pathway for treating type 1 diabetes. If the approach is ultimately successful in humans, it could allow type 1 diabetes to be treated without the long-term complications of immune system suppression.

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Image: Resonator Outcoupler Microscopy (PROM) image that highlights focal adhesions of live dental stem cells; Copyright: Yue Zhuo/Brian Cunningham

Novel microscopy technique developed to analyze cellular focal adhesion dynamics

Focal adhesions are large specialized proteins that are located in the area where a cell membrane meets the extracellular matrix (ECM), a collection of molecules surrounding the cells that provide support and regulate micromechanical signals to the cells.

Biomaterial particles educate immune system to accept transplanted islets

By instructing key immune system cells to accept transplanted insulin-producing islets, researchers have opened a potentially new pathway for treating type 1 diabetes. If the approach is ultimately successful in humans, it could allow type 1 diabetes to be treated without the long-term complications of immune system suppression.

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Intelligent headphones to measure hearing capacity and adjust the volume automatically

The device could also detect the appearance of pathologies such as the initial stages of otitis. With the project, UPV students were among the First European University Design Contest winners.

Image: surface of the enzyme levansucrase; Copyright: AK Seibel

New technology for enzyme design

Scientists at the University of Würzburg have chemically modified the enzyme levansucrase using a new method. The enzyme can now produce sugar polymers that are exciting for applications in the food industry and medicine.

Image: the lipid bilayer used as a platform for capturing viruses; Copyright: University of Twente

Virus detector based on lifelike interaction

In order to detect an influenza virus successfully, even in small concentrations, you would like to know in what way the virus interacts with healthy cells. Researcher Mark Verheijden of the University of Twente succeeded in mimicking the cell surface on a sensor.

Image: NTU researchers holding the cream containing the new nanoflares; Copyright: NTU Singapore

New nanoparticles help to detect serious scarring of wounds

A new way of seeing when heavy wound scars are forming, and providing doctors the chance to intervene, has been developed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)andNorthwestern University in the United States.

Image: single neuron on a microplate (SEM image) and two adjoining neurons that were physically connected; Copyright: Shoji Takeuchi, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo

Building a brain, cell by cell: Researchers make a mini neuron network (of two)

The human brain is an exquisitely complex, organic CPU, made of trillions of connections between many billions of neurons. Understanding such a complicated organ is a massive scientific undertaking, and researchers often use simplified models to uncover small pieces of the neurological puzzle.

Image: schematic of silicon microresonator generating a frequency comb that samples molecules for chemical identification; Copyright: Alexander Gaeta/Columbia Engineering

First chip-scale broadband optical system to sense molecules in the mid-IR

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have demonstrated, for the first time, a chip-based dual-comb spectrometer in the mid-infrared range, that requires no moving parts and can acquire spectra in less than 2 microseconds.

Image: Schematic representation of the artificial enzyme that activates gene switches; Copyright: Universität Basel, Yasunori Okamoto

Designer cells: artificial enzyme can activate a gene switch

Complex reaction cascades can be triggered in artificial molecular systems: Swiss scientists have constructed an enzyme than can penetrate a mammalian cell and accelerate the release of a hormone. This then activates a gene switch that triggers the creation of a fluorescent protein. The findings were reported by researchers from the University of Basel and ETH Zurich.

Image: HeLa cells with a substance labelled with a fluorescent red dye; Copyright: L. Rakers et al./Cell Chem Biol

Investigating cell membranes: substance mimicking a vital membrane component

In an interdisciplinary collaboration, researchers at the University of Münster have developed a method of visualizing an important component of the cell membrane in living cells. Therefore, they synthesized a family of new substances. The study has been published in Cell Chemical Biology.