If you’ve ever laid in an MRI or CT machine, you’ve probably stared at the GE logo on the equipment as there’s not much else to do while the images are taken. GE makes a lot of the imaging ...
Read More »The traditional way for surgical residents to learn and improve at procedures is to use cadavers (human corpses) that were donated to science and perform practical surgery training on them. ...
Read More »High-temperature polymers are all the rage right now in 3D printing, and for good reason. Materials like PEEK, PEKK, and ULTEM are reshaping the manufacturing space with their high ...
Read More »With the help of the University Health Network’s Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, doctors in Canada are creating accurate, life-size 3D printed models for better pre-operative preparation. The ...
Read More »Orthopaedic and Spinal Surgeons at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are setting up a new in-house 3D printing facility for the creation of anatomical models. The facility will cater ...
Read More »Munich-based Kumovis released its debut 3D printing system, gearing it towards medical applications and products. The company is touting the printer's ability to convert the build chamber ...
Read More »Medical 3D printing has always taken cues from biology to develop new functional parts and prosthetics. With the advanced engineering capabilities the technology allows, researchers have ...
Read More »Zortrax has just launched a new line of biocompatible resins for medical and dental applications. These new materials are especially useful for bridges, crowns, surgical and prosthetic ...
Read More »Tokyo-headquartered digital technology company Ricoh has partnered with Baltimore-based stem cell research firm Elixirgen Scientific to develop new biomedical products and services that ...
Read More »Researchers at University of Minnesota have created See-Shell, a transparent skull for studying neural activity in mice. The use of such monitoring tools to measure neural activity in real ...
Read More »PEEK is an extremely strong, durable, mechanically and chemically resistant material. PEEK is often compared with aluminum alloys, but PEEK is lighter than aluminum, making it the perfect ...
Read More »While we often discuss the impact of pollution on the environment and in general, there are certain groups that face worse challenges from it. Unclean air pollution causes roughly 7 million ...
Read More »While new technologies have made the lives of visually impaired persons far better, there's still a long way to go. Even though all sorts of devices like braille watches and reading aids ...
Read More »Steven Hetts, interventional radiologist at UC San Francisco, and Nitash Balsara, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, are working ...
Read More »London-based Betatype are an advanced manufacturing company that found a new way to improve orthopaedic care. Betatype identified a means of making crucial, metal orthapaedic implants far ...
Read More »From prosthetics to anatomical models, 3D printing has helped copy the human body in many ways. One such case is Marie, a life-size 3D printed human body derived from full-body scans of five ...
Read More »Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible 3D printed capsule that can doctors can control using Bluetooth wireless technology. In effect, the ...
Read More »Precise Bio are planning to bring medical applications like printed corneas to the market in a big way. While the company is not ready for clinical treatment, they are setting up operations ...
Read More »Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are taking 3D printed lenses to the next level with their new line of 3D printed polymer lenses for x-ray ...
Read More »Professor Michael Sealy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has invented medical implants that forego the entire process of retrieval after healing. These dissolvable medical implants ...
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