{"id":1030,"date":"2017-12-06T09:14:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T09:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/priorclavena.com\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2021-12-21T05:07:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T05:07:13","slug":"medical-prosthetic-research-doesnt-cost-arm-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en\/2017\/12\/06\/medical-prosthetic-research-doesnt-cost-arm-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Prosthetic Research Doesn\u2019t Have to Cost an Arm and a Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be the 21st century, but people are still falling apart.\u00a0 We rely on medical science to keep us up and running, whether we need an artificial limb, a cochlear implant, a false eye, or a neural implant to manage chronic migraines.\u00a0 Biomedical engineering is moving at a fast pace; in the past twenty years coronary stents have become run-of-the-mill in hospitals all over the US \u2014\u00a0good news for the half a million Americans who get one every year.<\/p>\n<h2>When Bigger Isn\u2019t Better<\/h2>\n<p>The galloping growth of biomedical engineering reflects our need to keep pace with modern life.\u00a0And when you are trying to keep up, bigger isn\u2019t always better. Neural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en\/autoclaves-prosthetics\/\">prosthetics<\/a> must be tiny and flexible to improve biocompatibility in the brain. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asme.org\/engineering-topics\/articles\/bioengineering\/next-generation-in-neural-prosthetics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have made significant progress with thin-film flexible polymers over silicon for their neural auditory prosthetics.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Put More Money Back Into Your Research<\/h2>\n<p>Biomedical research and development labs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en-us\/2017\/03\/28\/the-lean-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">run lean and, therefore, need dependable and efficient equipment.<\/a>\u00a0Priorclave has worked for decades to supply the ideal autoclave for biomedical R&amp;D: <a href=\"https:\/\/priorclavena.com\/steam-autoclave-sterilizers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-lived, hard-working, water and energy efficient.<\/a> Although you\u2019ll still need a more cumbersome medical-grade sterilizer when it comes time for human trials, our research-grade sterilizers are optimized for the daily grunt work of prototyping and durability\/life-cycle testing,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en-us\/customers\/autoclaves-for-life-science-pharmaceutical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subjecting your prototypes to\u00a0exact same stress and strain as an\u00a0FDA-approved medical-grade sterilizer<\/a>\u00a0without the associated high-cost of purchasing, maintaining, and operating such a\u00a0behemoth.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uwnews\/30282476940\/in\/photolist-8YjfoK-W61rLT-8nXqZw-cB537s-o6zhX1-62wJCo-dKnQ7U-raDQPi-iHRf7x-dKnQvw-cgqexh-4XoVRM-6WU1Mq-fvDWYb-cgqeuW-EwVTF-7cRG6P-86woaw-5F8jt4-cgqLY7-5Zttts-RL8DM4-Uv6tLU-Lew3Xt-N8XBno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UW News, CC BY 2.0<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be the 21st century, but people are 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