Our editor Laura Hughes highlights her five must-read articles for this week.
1. BIOMEDevice Digital Express: What to expect
Hayley Haggarty, event director of BIOMEDevice Digital Express, spoke to MPN editor Laura Hughes about the virtual event.
2. HP partners with BASF to launch polypropylene material
Together, multinational IT company, HP, and chemicals company, BASF, have developed a new HP 3D high reusability PolyPropylene (PP) that aims to strengthen production within the medical sector.
3. IoT: A SWOT analysis
Rohini Choudhary from Transparency Market Research conducts a SWOT analysis of the Internet of Things (IoT) medical devices within the healthcare sector.
4. New medical device aims to improve patient comfort during chemotherapy
Ramya Sriram, digital content manager at Kolabtree, a freelance platform for scientists, discusses the discovery of a medical device which aims to improve comfort for chemotherapy patients.
5. The journey to developing a coating effective against Covid-19
Prof. Angel Porgador, from the department of microbiology, immunology and genetics at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) and the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), and Dr. Mark Schvartzman, from the department of materials engineering at BGU, explains how they are developing a coating effective against Covid-19.