A 74 year Old Man Receives a 3D Printed Silicon Mask to Recover His Face
Since 1990, Keith Londsdale, a 74 year old man had received over 45 different surgical procedures to survive through basal cell carcinoma, one of the most common skin cancer in the United States. The...
View ArticleThe World’s First 3D Printed Beating Artificial Heart Cells
Researchers at the Wake Forest School of Medicine have created 3D Printed beating artificial heart cells called Organoids. The heart cells are created by first genetically modifying adult human skin...
View ArticleFast bioprinting of human cartilage implants
At ETH Zürich’s Cartilage Engineering and Regeneration laboratory they have made some notable speed advancements in 3D printing of human cartilage which should lead to implantable replacements for...
View ArticleItalian researchers develop a technology to 3dprint eyeballs by 2027
An Italian research studio MHOX recently published a study which suggests that the human eyes could be replaced with 3d printed artificial eyeballs by 2027. According to their team of researchers, the...
View Article3D printer that could print billions of organic compounds
Martin D Burke and his team from the University of Illinois have studied and synthesized small molecules with protein-like structures for quite some time. These molecules are in fact the basis of the...
View ArticleIron Man Delivers a Real Bionic Arm to 7-Year-Old
This is a project that deserves all the attention it can get. Limbitless Solutions, founded by Albert Manero is a growing engineering community devoted to changing lives through the innovation of new...
View ArticleHigh-tech commercial scale 3d printing factory line by Dutch TNO
Production lines based on 3d printing are a technological dream, just imagine the possibilities of having complex products being made on a line that is fast and infinitely reconfigurable. The line...
View ArticleUS Military Wants to Scan Soldiers Before They Go to War
Being a soldier is full of risks. In a fight, one unfortunate move could lead to serious injury. The US military knows all about it, and is searching for ways to make current technology help to improve...
View ArticleThanks to 3D Printing This Woman Can Still See
Despite it is not a mainstream technique yet, 3D printing has already saved tons of lives. A great story came in today: psychotherapist Pamela Shavaun Scott can still see thanks to 3D printing. The...
View ArticleWeak Ankles? Try 3D Printed Ankle Braces!
There is a good chance that many of your friends want to sport a bit more in the upcoming year. And if you want to sport but you’re not very keen on monotonously running blocks around your...
View ArticleDisabled Dog Runs For The First Time With 3D Printed Legs
It can be seen as 3D System’s heart-warming Christmas stunt: a dog called Derby was born without his front limbs, but thanks to American 3D printing giant 3D Systems he is now able to run faster than...
View ArticleScientists 3D Print Life-Size Models of Patient’s Heads
You probably already know that 3D printing technology is being used to reconstruct faces of patients who have suffered from accidents or rare diseases. But according to a presented study at a...
View ArticleAdrian Gögl Steps Into the World of 3D Printed Eyewear
3D printing has definitely entered the eyewear market; we’ve seen the technique hitting the spectacles market before when it was used by companies such as CAS Design and Soda Concept to create better...
View ArticleIsraeli Company 3D Printed a Marijuana Inhaler
Earlier this year, professor Lee Cronin at Glasgow University explained what the benefits of 3D printed drugs could be, but then for a long time we didn’t hear anything about the – highly interesting –...
View ArticleThis 3D Printed Cast Uses Social Media Messages
Having to wear a cast is not the best possible scenario you could think of for your arm. Nevertheless, what ‘kind of’ makes this still a funny experience is casts’s ability to not just be a cast, but a...
View Article3D 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 grow cancer cells in petri dishes, with the inability to let them become real...
View ArticleThis Ring Enables Visually Impaired to Read
If you’re visually impaired, then reading a text in a book full of small letters won’t be easy. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SIT) therefore decided to do something about it...
View ArticleScientists Can Now 3D Print Vascular Networks
3D printed jewelry, furniture or even houses: all of it amazed us massively during last months. However, the technique really becomes interesting when we’re talking about printing actual organs. Will...
View ArticleWhy 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 the 100 leading practicing scientists in the UK. He was praised for being a...
View ArticleBioprinting’s Next Level: Electronic Organs
Bioprinting is that part of 3D printing where additive manufacturing is used to create new organs. This technique is still in its developing phase, and it might take quite a while until we will...
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