Bioprinting is that part of 3D printing where additive manufacturing is used to create new organs. This technique is still in … [Read more...]
Scientists Can Now 3D Print Blood Vessels
Exciting times for Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Yesterday we told you the hospital was the place where Van Gogh got … [Read more...]
Van Gogh Gets a 3D Printed Living Ear
Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear back in 1888, but now in 2014 his ear is making a fantastic comeback. If that sentence … [Read more...]
UK Dental Lab Plans to 3D Print Spinal Implants
UK dental lab Attenborough Dental's spine is probably not the bassline, but a 3D printer. For over 100 years, it has been … [Read more...]
Doctors Replace Patient’s Hip Using 3D Printing
3D printing techniques have been helping many fields to improve, such as the medical one. Whether it comes to a 3D printed … [Read more...]
Personalized 3D Printed Mouthpiece to Fight Sleep Apnoea
There is a 5 percent chance that you suffer from apnoea, as 5 percent of the world population has this disease. When one is … [Read more...]
New: 3D Printed Protective Face Masks for Football Players
If you're a football player and you've got your face injured during a match, then it could take up to three weeks before you … [Read more...]
3D Printing’s Fight Against Cancer: 3D Prints of a Tumor
Scientists have been 3D printing an entire cancer tumor to find out how to fight the disease. Until now, scientists used to … [Read more...]
“3D Printed Heart Tested In a Human in Less Than a Decade”
The possibility to 3D print organs: that's by far the most interesting part of 3D printing. Of course there is an ethical … [Read more...]
Why There Are Two Sides to 3D Printed Drugs
This year's January, chemistry professor Lee Cronin from the University of Glasgow was picked by Science Council as one of … [Read more...]
New: 3D Print Your Own Ski Boot Insoles
If you are a skier, you will probably know about the long process of getting fitted for a new pair of ski boots. Before a one … [Read more...]
3D Printing Device Set to Predict a Heart Attack
The cure for cancer has not yet been invented, but for the other big death cause, heart disease, there might soon be a way to … [Read more...]
Bioprinting Living Cartilage to Fix Knee Injuries
At the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California, Dr. Darryl D'Lima is working on a bioprinting technique to print living … [Read more...]
3D Printing Makes Radiation Therapy Less Harmful
The VUmc Cancer Center in Amsterdam has found a new way to improve its radiotherapy process, using 3D printers. The … [Read more...]
Man Receives a 3D Printed Pelvis
A man who has lost half his pelvis to bone cancer can be relieved thanks to 3D printing, as the technique enabled a surgeon … [Read more...]
3D Printed Knee Perfectly Fits the Structure of a Joint
Doctors have found a new way of using 3D printing techniques in the medical world. They have used it to restore a man's knee … [Read more...]
Organovo Partners Up With US Health Institutes For 3D Printed Tissue Project
US bioprinting company Organovo is working on a project to test drugs directly on 3D printed functional living tissues. With … [Read more...]
Australian Company Creates 3D Printed Orthotics
The first commercially available 3D printed orthotics are to be launched this week. The Australian company 3D Orthotics has … [Read more...]
3D Printing Project Provides Prosthetics For Ugandan People
The University of Toronto has partnered up with a hospital from Uganda and an NGO to 3D print prosthetics in order to speed … [Read more...]
First Usable 3D Printed Liver Expected by 2014
Here's the first prediction about 3D printing for 2014: the very first working 3D printed liver is expected by the end of the … [Read more...]