3D Printing in Medicine
Johnson & Johnson is using 3D printing to create many innovations in medicine including customized surgical tools and pills with sensors.
3D printed models which helped saved four-year-old Lucy Boucher's life will be on display in the Science Museum in London from 2019.
Formlabs announces two new biocompatible resins and a partnership with 3Shape. Both could simplify 3D printing for dentists everywhere.
A study is to be conducted examining the impact of 3D printing models of patient's hearts for pre-op pediatric heart surgery planning.
Coming to your body soon? Using proprietary 3D printing machines and a DLP process, researchers have fabricated functional blood vessels.
Guardlab is the official mouth guard of the UFC; the company uses 3D scanning and 3D printing to offer cheaper, safer sports guards.
India's first successful implantation of an artificial 3D printed vertebrae at a Gurgaon hospital allowed a 32-year-old woman to walk again.
The California nutritional startup Multiply Labs has developed a 3D printing process that creates personalized vitamin supplements.
Researchers at the University of Utah used 3D printing to prototype "Smart Glasses" with liquid lenses that adjust to the wearer's sight.
3D printing is becoming an increasingly important tool for space travel. Now, the first medical supplies were 3D printed in space.
The Médecins Sans Frontières facility in Amman is using 3D printing technology to produce prosthetic ears and eyes for war-wounded patients.
As Americans age and gain weight, the traditional crash-test dummy is losing its relevance. Instead, 3D printing has helped create older - and even obese - alternatives.
JeffDESIGN is a concept developed by two doctors who want to update medical school education by teaching future doctors to how to 3D print.
Researchers from the US and UK perfected a technique to grow a fully formed human ear using a patients' own stem cells.
Medical cannabis has been tough for doctors to accurately prescribe, but this 3D printed cannabis inhaler created by the Tel Aviv-based startup Syqe Medical could be a promising solution.
Slowly but surely, more doctors use 3D printing to prepare for surgery. In hospital Marañón in Madrid, surgeons and engineers teamed up to establish a medical Fablab.
Survivors of landmine blasts may soon benefit from 3D printed synthetic bone thanks to a £2.8m research grant at the University of Glasgow.
Meso-Brain is a 3D printing project that has received €3.3 million from the European Commission’s Future and Emerging Technology (FET) fund.
The new report from Spearhead Acuity Business Research & Consulting shows that healthcare-driven 3D printing technology will expand rapidly.
Chinese scientists at Sichuan Revotek have successfully implanted 3D bioprinted blood vessels made from stem cells into rhesus monkeys.