A promising new treatment for epilepsy directly targets the nerve cells, deep within the brain, that cause seizures. The treatment uses an electronic micropump and an anticonvulsant drug to inhibit ...

Using material similar to bathtub caulk, University of Utah engineers invented a tiny, inexpensive "micropump" that could be used to move chemicals, blood or other samples through a card-sized medical ...

The miniaturization of health care, biomedical, and chemical systems is highly desirable for developing advanced technologies, encompassing micro-total analysis systems, lab-on-a-chip, organ-on-a-chip ...

This application note describes the implementation of a basic driver circuit for driving a piezoelectric micropump with flow control in an example of fluid delivery. A piezoelectric micropump consists ...

A new generation of micropumps based on research at the University of Houston could lead to more versatile applications for microfluidic technology, and increased opportunities for integration with ...

In medical devices for precision controlled drug delivery, such as infusion pumps, insulin pumps or nebulizers, piezoelectric micropumps offer an attractive alternative to standard pumps.Piezoelectric ...

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NASA is welcoming six students from UB who will travel to Houston next week to test how much more effective a pump could be if it used electricity instead of mechanical parts in the low-gravity ...

Valveless pumping[1] is an ideal and biomimetic way of fluid transportation due to its simplicity and absence of moving elements which may cause fatigue problems. However, the issue of low efficiency ...

LYON, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Flamel Technologies (NASDAQ: FLML) announced today that it has entered into a license agreement with a leading specialty pharmaceutical company for development and ...