3D Printing in Medicine
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.
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.
Made with 3D printing, the world's first submillimeter biopsy forceps which could help reliably detect pancreatic cancer for early treatment.
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.
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.
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.