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 cartilage into the human body. Cartilage is the tissue which cushions knee joints...
View Article3D 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 fight it more effectively. A team at the school of engineering and applied...
View ArticleNew: 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 can buy new ski boots, it very important that the boot insoles match...
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 Article“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 question to be asked, namely: how far can we go? Should we aim at 3D printing...
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 ArticleNew: 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 can play a new match. This is all because of safety procedures. However, if...
View ArticlePersonalized 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 suffering from this disease, the person can’t breathe properly during night...
View ArticleDoctors 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 pelvis or jaw or even a skull replacement, the technique has proven its...
View ArticleUK 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 a dental laboratory and it is currently active in more than 20 countries...
View ArticleVan 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 doesn’t make any sense to you, then we certainly can’t blame you for that. So...
View ArticleScientists 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 his severed ear printed, and today we can announce researchers at the...
View ArticleNew: 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 can buy new ski boots, it very important that the boot insoles match...
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...
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 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 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 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 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...
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