3D printing in your face!
Belgium professor Blondeel, who works at the University Hospital of Ghent, and his team of plastic surgeons have successfully executed Belgium’s first full face transplant. What makes this transplant...
View Article3D printing could lead to do-it-yourself drugstore
Professor Lee Cronin, lead researcher at the University of Glasgow, believes his research could lead to the development of home chemical fabricators which consumers could use to design and create...
View ArticleEmma’s 3D printed ‘Magic Arms’ able her to hug and play
Megan Lavelle’s youngest daughter Emma was born with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC). This is a non-progressive condition that causes stiff joints and very underdeveloped muscles. When she was...
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Gabriel Villar’s 3D Printer That Creates Synthetic Human Tissue
Gabriel Villar from the University of Oxford has created a 3D printer that can print watery droplets that are similar to living human cells. Each of your cells, whether it’s a neuron or muscle cell, is...
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Jake Evill’s Cortex – Exoskelleton to Replace Itchy Casts
Sometimes you come across a brilliant idea that seems so obvious that it only makes you wonder why you didn’t think of it first. Jake Evill’s Cortex is one of these brilliant ideas where 3D printing...
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3D Printing Helps Visually Impaired Children
3D printing can be used in a lot of different fields and sometimes the results can be heartbreaking. A perfect example is the story about the project Hands On Search by Yahoo Japan. This 3D project...
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3D Printing Helps Surgeons to Operate Faster
3D printing can help surgeons to be able to operate faster and provide more detailed work. Long surgeries often come along with two problems: high costs and risk to the patient. Because surgery can...
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Professor Worked On Technique to Print Out Body Parts
3D printing organs and bones: myth or the new reality? Kevin Shakeshaff, who is a professor of pharmacy at the University of Nottingham in England thinks it’s the future. He has been working on a...
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3D Printing Technique Makes Prosthetic Hands Affordable
During last weekends Maker Faire Tokyo a new 3D printed artificial hand was presented, called Handie. While regular prosthetic hands can easily cost more than 10.000 dollars, Handie will only cost...
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3D Printed Liver Can Survive For 40 Days
3D printing organs: it’s what the world is waiting for. A research company from San Diego called Organovo has announced it has created slices of functioning, long-lasting human liver using a 3D...
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Surgeons Use 3D Printing to Rebuild Patient’s Face
Surgeons from Morriston Hospital in Swansea, England, are using 3D printing in order to rebuild the face of a patient, who had a terrible motorbike accident. The doctors use the technique of 3D...
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Reality: 3D Printing 150 Prosthetic Eyes in Just One Hour
Today, creating a prosthetic eye is a time-consuming activity. Only one eye at a time can be made and it often takes weeks before patients can receive them. With the possibilities of 3D printing, this...
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Dutch Company Produces World’s First-Ever 3D Printed Glasses
recently there have been a lot of of articles about the question whether 3D printing will be able conquer the world of opticals. What writers don’t know is that it’s already happening: a Dutch company,...
View ArticleFirst 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 upcoming year. San Diego based firm Organovo told Computerworld that its...
View Article3D 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 up the process of helping Ugandan people who’ve lost a limb. 3D printing...
View ArticleAustralian Company Creates 3D Printed Orthotics
The first commercially available 3D printed orthotics are to be launched this week. The Australian company 3D Orthotics has been working on a 3D printing project for 12 months and has now found a way...
View ArticleOrganovo 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 such tissues patient’s treatments will be safer, faster and more effective....
View Article3D 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 after he got two meniscus tears. The way doctors used to fix such a problem...
View ArticleMan 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 to create a complete new pelvis for the patient. The doctor, Craig Gerrand,...
View Article3D 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 radiotherapy department uses 3D printers to protect the human body whilst undergoing...
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