3D Printing in Medicine
Porous 3D printed titanium hips can mimic the quality of real bones, and potentially extend the life of a hip replacement.
Is bioprinting more than a buzzword for tech enthusiasts and investors? Abd what’s the status on 3D printing organs? Here’s an overview on one of the most 'human' 3D printing use cases.
3D printing could become up to 1,000 times faster thanks to an overclocked crystal technique developed by researchers.
Welsh experts have created new software that allows surgeons to design 3D printed implants for facial reconstruction.
Researching diseases, new drugs, and cosmetics without testing on animals is now possible thanks to a new 3D printed heart-on-a-chip device.
L'Oréal is developing technology which it hopes will cure baldness through 3D printed hair follicles capable of growing new hair.
Leroy the Great Dane has a new "leash of life" thanks to a 3D printed titanium bone implant which helped him beat cancer.
Using a 3D printed kidney, a urologist discovers that riding a "moderate intensity" roller coaster helps patients pass painful kidney stones.
Painful bone grafts could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to 3D printed bone implants invented by researchers at Trinity College, Dublin.
MIT researchers used 3D printing to make flexible devices which "remember" their original shapes and can transform accordingly.
Edible batteries in 3D printed cases may someday power ingestible devices which could treat diseases and diagnose patients.
North Korea has unveiled a 3D printer which can reproduce bone for use in cosmetic surgery and dentistry.
This robot massage therapist from Singapore uses 3D printed parts. It could be the perfect therapist... it'll never get tired of massaging (and listening) to you.
Brazilian “Animal Avengers” save Labrador retriever puppy, Hanna, by giving her a 3D printed tooth free of charge, in the first procedure of its kind.
The world's smallest lens has been created with the help of 3D printing which could revolutionize industries from surgery to surveillance.
Doctors utilize 3D printed models to save two lives, successfully removing a particularly problematic tumor and returning externalized brain to an infant's cranium.
Denise Schindler, a German paralympic cyclist, is hoping to use a 3D printed leg prosthesis to race with in Rio de Janeiro this September.
Lab-grown, 3D printed human skin could be the future of product testing. Now L'Oreal who have partnered up with bio-engineering start-up Organovo.
For the first time in British legal history, 3D printed replica have been used to illustrate the severe head injuries sustained by Ellie Butler in an ongoing court case.
15 year old whizzkid creates OneRing, a 3D printed Parkinson's tracker that uses machine learning to analyze and understand movement.