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Mecmesin’s MultiTest 1-i Test Stands Help Bard Measure Performance of Biopsy Devices for Continued Compliance

Bard Limited, a UK unit of C R Bard Inc., is involved in the servicing of Bard® Magnum® biopsy needle injector guns for its clients located across the globe. In the reusable handheld instrument, the key component is a powerful spring equipped with a dual-action trigger for handling the biopsy sample.

From Mecmesin 18 Oct 2017

Retention Test for Lancet Needles

Owen Mumford, a UK based medical design company, develop and manufacture a variety of blood glucose control and monitoring devices used by consumers and healthcare professionals worldwide.

From Mecmesin 18 Oct 2017

Testing Injector Pen Training Aids

Seeing products through from an original creative idea to a production reality, is Crux Product Design. One area that the company concentrates on is medical device engineering and the corresponding lab testing, evaluation and validation services.

From Mecmesin 18 Oct 2017

Test Methods for Medical Devices

The importance of reliability and quality of medical devices cannot be over-estimated, as the lives, safety, and well-being of patients are at great risk and the industry is closely regulated. Therefore, medical devices are an area of well-established scrutiny and standards.

From Mecmesin 18 Oct 2017

Testing the Tensile Strength of Heat Sealed Medical Pouches

Award winning medical device designers and manufacturers, Rocket Medical PLC, produce a large variety products for clinical applications, which are packaged in pre-produced pouches, sealed in their manufacturing plant and then sent for sterilization.

From Mecmesin 18 Oct 2017

Performing Spring Tests on Respiratory Devices

Bespak is an leader in specialty medical devices for anesthesia and inhaled drug delivery. Each year, the company produces over 450 million complex devices, most of which include inhalers that are used to administer exact metered doses of aerosolized medicine or dry powder to patients suffering from conditions like: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and other related illnesses.

From Mecmesin 18 Oct 2017

Drug Delivery Device Torque Testing

Becton Dickinson (BD) a global medical technology company needed to evaluate the required torque to unscrew the cap of a drug delivery device, which is completed as a production quality control measure.

From Mecmesin 18 Oct 2017

Simultaneous Speciation of Arsenic and Selenium Species in Petroleum Refinery Wastewater

Selenium is an important trace element, but it is toxic if an excess is taken.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 13 Oct 2017

Dealing with Large tissue scanning data for neuroscience research

The following piece is the final article in a three-part series on imaging large whole mount brain sections for neuroscience research.

From Huron Digital Pathology 11 Oct 2017

Using IC-ICP/MS Technique to Separate Antimony Containing Nanoparticles in Airborne Particulate Matter

Over the last few years, there has been a worrying increase in the concentration of antimony (Sb), which has led to environmental concern about this element.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 10 Oct 2017

Scanning Large Brain Tissue Sections for Neuroscience Research

The following article is the second of a three-part series on imaging large whole mount brain sections for neuroscience research.

From Huron Digital Pathology 5 Oct 2017

Analysis of Ibuprofen Formulation

Pharmaceutical compounds and formulations, both in academic research and production, are traditionally investigated using x-ray diffraction (XRD).

From Thermo Fisher Scientific - Elemental and Phase Analysis 4 Oct 2017

Using IC-ICP/MS Method to Determine Organic and Inorganic Arsenic Species

Arsenic (As) is a metallic element that occurs naturally in soil and ores in the environment.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 4 Oct 2017

Using ICP/MS or ICP/OES Method for Detection of Dimethyl Thallium in Water Samples

The high toxicity of thallium (Tl) means this element is of significant environmental relevance.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 2 Oct 2017

Sectioning and Staining Large Brain Tissue for Neuroscience Research

The following article is the first of a three-part series on imaging large whole mount brain sections for neuroscience research.

From Huron Digital Pathology 28 Sep 2017

Ultra Trace Determination of Bromate in Drinking Water by Microbore Column IC and ICP/MS

The chemical compound bromate is formed when drinking water is disinfected through ozonation.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 27 Sep 2017

Multiplex Immunoassays vs Gold Standard Assay Techniques

Antibody assays are widely used in clinical diagnostics and also in the process of drug development. Gold standard assay techniques include the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), western blotting, and radioimmunoassay techniques.

From Vitl Life Science Solutions 26 Sep 2017

Redox Speciation Analysis of Iron Using IC-ICP/MS Technique

Environmental behavior of iron, its absorption by human and animals and its storage and transport all depend on its oxidation state.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 25 Sep 2017

Analyzing Morphology of Plant Fibers using Scanning Electron Microscopy

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), in the last several years, has made a major impact on different fields of biology research that are either associated with the physiology and anatomy of plants, or with the use of plant fibers in various industrial applications.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Phenom-World BV 25 Sep 2017

Using Resting-State Functional MRI for Fine-Grained Mapping of Mouse Brain Functional Connectivity

The neuroimaging field has been revolutionized by the resting state functional MRI or rs-fMRI technique, (Biswal et al., 1995), highlighting a major shift towards the notion of combined whole brain functional networks in contrast to the process of identifying isolated functional brain regions triggered by some stimulus paradigm.

From Bruker BioSpin - NMR, EPR and Imaging 22 Sep 2017