3D Printing in Medicine
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.
Students from Delft University of Technology have modfied a 3D printer to cast silicone for soft robotics in a process they call Ulticast.
A hospital in Brisbane, Australia will host a biofabrication institute where cartilage, bone and tissue can be 3D printed for their patients.
Porous 3D printed titanium hips can mimic the quality of real bones, and potentially extend the life of a hip replacement.
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.
Researchers developed hyperelastic bone material which could be used to 3D print bone implants and heal fractures within weeks.
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.
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.