Micropumps On The Rise
With increasing medical device miniaturization, micropumps are pressuring their way into portable and wound-care applications. Compared with bioresorbable stents, 3-D printed tissues, or cancer-fighting nanobots, medical pumps are hardly the most ‘sexy’ technology on the block. But without them, doctors and nurses couldn’t dispense fluids or medications. They couldn’t remove tissue or foreign material from…