A couple of weeks back, our sister site EE Times recieved a note from a young engineering grad with aspirations of becoming a medical electronics designer. The student, Xiuxin Yang, holds a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering and a master's degree in electrical engineering and has experience in FPGA design, small embedded system design, and  embedded C programming, among...
This week, a company that's developing an implantable glucose sensor receives funding and a team at Cornell University has created a transistor from cotton fibers. Implanted Glucose Sensor Company Completes Fourth Round of Financing (mobi health news) Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (New York Times) MD+DI's Manufacturer of the Year: Johnson & Johnson (MD+DI) Cotton Transistors Lead the...