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Military vehicles are being kept in the field by reverse engineering obsolescent parts when they reach the point of failure, by a UK hydraulics manufacturer. Midlands-based MGR Fluid Power has the capacity and expertise to take an obsolescent hydraulic component from a military vehicle and either make a new component to print if the existing designs are still available, or completely reverse engineer a new part from the existing component.

Every day, millions of Americans with diabetes have to inject themselves with insulin to manage their blood-sugar levels. But less painful alternatives are emerging. Scientists are developing a way of administering the medicine orally with tiny vesicles that can deliver insulin where it needs to go without a shot. They will share their in vivo testing results. The researchers are presenting their work at the 252nd National Meeting & Expo...

CEVA has announced that Oticon has licensed and deployed the RivieraWaves BLE technology for use as part of the Bluetooth implementation in its Oticon Opn hearing aid. According to the company, the Oticon Opn combines breakthrough technologies to “help people with hearing loss hear better, with less effort and better recall”.

A team of researchers at the Xian University of Technology in China and the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom have demonstrated that chaos can, in fact, be used to transmit information over a wireless physical channel offering wide-ranging advantages from enhanced communications security. The researchers explain their findings this week in Chaos, from AIP Publishing.

Novel scaffolds are shown enabling cells to behave in a different but controlled way in vitro due to the presence of aligned, self-assembled ceramic nanofibers of an ultra-high anisotropy ratio augmented into graphene shells. "This unique hybrid nano-network allows for an exceptional combination of selective guidance stimuli for stem cell development, variations in immune reactions, and behavior of cancer cells", says Professor Michael Gasik...

  Using ultrasound technology, physicists from the Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics make proton radiation in cancerous tissue visible. In future, the irradiation of tumors with protons could become more precise.

A new device developed by researchers at MIT and a physician at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center could greatly improve doctors’ ability to accurately diagnose ear infections. That could drastically reduce the estimated 2 million cases per year in the United States where such infections are incorrectly diagnosed and unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed. Such overprescriptions are considered a major cause of antibiotic resistance...

  Innovate UK is providing funding to support the next stage in development of a bio-active implant, Smart Spacer, which will counter post-operative infection following knee surgery. The programme has the potential to substantially reduce the £300m that these complications cost the NHS.

The availability of InterferenceAdvisor, an automated interference hunting solution which can dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to locate mobile network interference sources has been announced by Viavi Solutions. What typically could take several days or weeks can now take just hours.

The DVD 2016 event that will take place in Bedfordshire on 7th-8th September will see RFEL announce a new, HD-SDI and Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA) compliant military driver vision aid.