BEIJING – The trade war has escalated. On Aug. 23, China announced retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. exports, 10 days after the U.S. slapped the same amount on $300 billion of Chinese goods. Once again, the med-tech sector is neck deep in this tariff tit-for-tat. Read More
Researchers from the Swiss École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands have developed a bioprinting process that allows simultaneous production of the entire volume of complex shapes, providing much greater flexibility and faster production than layer-by-layer 3D printing. Details on the process, called volumetric printing, and printer were published in Advanced Materials. Read More
A little less than a year after it reported the final close of a series D financing, Miracor Medical SA, of Awans, Belgium, has been granted breakthrough device designation by the U.S. FDA for its Pressure-Controlled Intermittent Coronary Sinus Occlusion (PICSO) Impulse System for the treatment of ST-elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients. Read More
