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World’s first self-powered spinal implant transmits healing data from inside the body

Associate Professors Amir Alavi, Nitin Agarwal, and D. Kojo Hamilton have secured a $352,213 NIH R21 grant to create the ...
New Atlas

"Shark cage" implant protects insulin-producing cells in diabetic mice

Researchers have found a way to maintain insulin levels in diabetic mice by growing and implanting new beta cells that produce the hormone. These cells are housed inside a tiny device that protects ...
BioWorld

Stryker receives nod for cervical cage implant, sees strong value in 3-D printed technologies

Stryker Corp. has picked up a nod from the FDA to market the Tritanium C anterior cervical cage, an interbody fusion technology intended for use in the cervical spine. With this clearance, the ...
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First self-powered spinal implant can transmit real-time data from inside the body

A collaboration between civil engineering and neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh could change how spinal fusion ...
Business Wire

SurGenTec's GRAFTGUN Receives Core Patent for Post Filling Cages Using Their Graft Delivery Technology

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SurGenTec® has been issued device and method patent No. 9,668,881 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its graft loading technology to post-fill ...
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Spine surgeon Dr. Jeffrey Carlson implants first of its kind intervertebral cage for minimally invasive spinal fusion surgery

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, November 11, 2022, spine surgeon Jeffrey R. Carlson, MD, of Orthopaedic & Spine Center, performed the first implant of the Align Peek T/PLIF ...