AM Device to Help People with Lupus
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that causes the body to attack healthy tissue. According to WebMD, lupus affects women way more than men, with 90% of lupus cases ...
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Medical
Rabbit Gets Printed Cornea
Researchers from Hyderabad in India have successfully transplanted a 3D printed cornea onto a rabbit, which will pave the way for transplants onto human patients. Read on to learn more ...
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UAE Researchers Print Color Blindness Glasses
Researchers from Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi have successfully printed glasses for aiding people living with color blindness. Using photopolymer resins, they printed the lenses with ...
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AM Prototyping used to Develop Shoe for Diabetics
Diabetes can cause nerve damage and poor circulation in the feet, which can lead to foot ulcers, blisters, pain, and foot infections. In some cases, the damage can be severe and patients can ...
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AM Smart Spinal Implants for Monitoring Patient Healing
The spinal implant industry is a huge adopter of additive manufacturing due to the highly bespoke requirements for spinal implants. And it is a sector that continues to innovate at an ...
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3D Printed Living Ear Successfully Implanted on Patient
New York-based company 3DBio Therapeutics has announced the successful implant of a 3D printed ear onto a patient suffering from microtia, a condition that causes the ear to remain small and ...
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Clinical Reliability of FFF Printed PEEK Implants Quantified
Machined PEEK plastic has been used in custom cranial implants for some time, as it is strong, light, and biocompatible. Recent efforts have yielded a range of printable medical-grade PEEK ...
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3D Printed Compression Masks Treating Burns in Gaza
In 2020, a gas leak at a bakery in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, caused an inferno resulting in 25 fatalities and dozens of people sustaining injuries, many being burns related injuries. To ...
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Metal AM Medical Implants Taking off in China
China is embracing metal additive manufacturing for the large scale manufacture of medical implants. Beijing-based AK Medical have been in the implant game for a while now. At first they ...
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Researchers Grow Brain in 3D Printed Microfluidic Bioreactor
Microfluidic systems may be small, but they’re likely to be among the fastest growing applications for 3D printing in the coming years due to their low cost of entry and production. ...
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Drug-infused AM Stent Treats Oesophagus Cancer
Researchers at the University of South Australia (UniSA) in Adelaide, Australia, have manufactured an esophageal stent which can help treat cancer patients. Stents are small tubes that ...
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3D Printed Titanium Spinal Fusion Cage Receives NMPA Clearance in China
The research forefront of 3D printing for spines is ever advancing, and China offers the latest advancement with Huaxiang Group’s AM titanium spinal fusion cage receiving Category 3 medical ...
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Multi-Material 3D Printed Stent Automatically Expands and Delivers Drugs
In 2018, we covered a research project where the team developed highly stretchable hydrogel for 3D printing that could be used in all sorts of applications, from bio-scaffolds for ...
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Skull Surgery a Success with 3D Printing
An infant in Dehli, India, has had a medical condition called Trigonocephaly treated with the aid of additive manufacturing. Patients with Trigonocephaly are affected by a triangular ...
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Prototyping a Modular Mass Ventilator System – MassVentil Project
A recently developed ventilator has been unveiled by a team of researchers from Hungary, and they hope that the modular system, which has been designed with the aid of additive ...
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Hearing Products get Accelerated Development Workflow
Custom earware is not limited to hearing aids. Learn how ACS has set out to bring bespoke hearing protection..
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Treating Scoliosis with Exos Armor, a 3D Printed Back Brace
Scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine that can be caused by a number of muscular and neuromuscular conditions. It affects 2-3% of the world’s population, so hundreds of millions of ...
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Researchers 3D Print Liquid-Filled Defect-Detecting Objects
The market for microfluidic chambers is still small, mostly because the technology to create them effectively hasn’t been around that long. 3D printing microfluidic circuits has the ...
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3D Printed Drug Delivering Hearing Aids
The hearing aid industry was one of the first sectors to employ 3D printing in mass production of products. Every ear is different, and 3D printing allows perfect bespoke customization for ...
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Tuneable Stiffness from Crosslinked Polymers
Tunable stiffness is highly desirable in the world of medical implant manufacture. When 3D printing prosthetics (especially bone replacements) it’s important to get the variable stiffness ...
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