A team of researchers from Penn State University have recently published a paper in the Advanced Functional Materials and Biofabrication journals, detailing their research into 3D printed ...
Read More »Living organs for medical experimentation are pretty hard to come by, on account of human beings actually using them on a day to day basis. To rectify this, the concept of the organoid has ...
Read More »Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have revealed a printed device that could one day help sufferers of various neurological problems such as epilepsy or loss of limb functions due to ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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. ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Custom earware is not limited to hearing aids. Learn how ACS has set out to bring bespoke hearing protection..
Read More »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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