CDU/CSU and FDP in Favor of Stricter Medical Devices Regulations
Updated: 2013-01-30 17:26:19
In its current newsletter, the German Medical Technology Association BVMed reports that the German political parties CDU/CSU and FDP are in favor of stricter medical devices regulations. The parliamentary groups of the CDU/CSU and FDP are urgently calling for stricter European regulations for medical devices. In a parliamentary motion the members of parliament are calling [...]

They should have called it graphenepalooza. The current MRS Bulletin from the Materials Research Society is entirely devoted to graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arranged as a honeycomb-shaped lattice that has unique strength, conductivity and other properties. Several technical articles cover every aspect of the material, including its potential medical applications in biosensing [...]
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