Bioprinting
3D Printing News Briefs, June 20, 2026: Holograms, Insoles, & Prosthetics
We’re focused on volumetric 3D printing, 3D printed insoles, and 3D printed prosthetics in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs. Read on for all the details! Researchers Using Holograms to…
Researchers Combine AI and Bioprinting to Create Tiny Blood Vessel Networks
If 2026 has a theme in bioprinting, it may be blood vessels. Researchers can already print incredibly sophisticated tissues. The harder part is keeping those tissues alive. Without a network…
The Longevity Gold Rush Could Become a Major Opportunity for Bioprinting
Longevity has suddenly become one of the hottest areas in technology and healthcare. Billionaires, pharmaceutical companies, AI startups, and venture capital firms are pouring billions into the idea that humans…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 28, 2026: Continuous Fiber Reinforcement, Bioprinted Trachea, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, America Makes announced the winners of its JAQS-SQ Project Call. Axtra3D is partnering with Keystone Industries to expand its dental material ecosystem, while BigRep…
Oxford Researchers Say 3D Printing Is Getting Better at Building Brain Tissue, But Not Fixing It Yet
Researchers at the University of Oxford are getting closer to building brain-like tissue with 3D printing, improving how cells can be organized into structures that resemble the human brain. The…
Canada Backs Aspect Biosystems With $280M to Scale Bioprinted Tissue Therapies
The Government of Canada is supporting bioprinting company Aspect Biosystems with a new $280 million project to help develop and manufacture its bioengineered cellular medicines. The project will run over…
3D Printed Bone Grafts From Georgetown Researchers Could Replace Traditional Implants
Researchers at Georgetown University are developing a new type of 3D printed bone graft designed to work more like real human bone. Instead of relying on metal implants or donor…
TV’s Scarpetta Suggests We Can 3D Print Full Human Organs. Reality Is… Not Yet
Having spent a good part of my journalistic career covering crime stories, it’s hard for me to stay away from any crime or medical forensic drama. So when Scarpetta premiered…
ARPA-H PRINT Program is Accelerating the U.S. Landscape for Bioprinted Organs
Joris Peels recently wrote about UT Southwestern Medical Center’s (UTSW’s) award of a $25 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), for a project seeking to…
Aspect Biosystems Expands Novo Nordisk Partnership, Signaling Broader Pharma Interest
Aspect Biosystems and Novo Nordisk are expanding their partnership. The duo had previously made a deal worth up to $2.6 billion in 2023. Then the deal centered on drug discovery…
UT Southwestern Medical Center Receives $25 Million ARPA-H Award to 3D Print Livers
UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) was awarded a $25 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to use patient stem cells to 3D print livers. The…
Top 10 Moonshot Ideas for 3D Printing’s Future
As the year comes to a close, it’s clear that additive manufacturing (AM) is entering a new phase. Costs are falling, supply chains are changing, government spending is rising, and…
How 3D Printing is Making the World a Better Place, One Medical Innovation at a Time
One of the most significant sectors for 3D printing applications is the healthcare field. According to an AM Research report, the 3D printed medical device market is estimated to reach…
3D Printing News Briefs, December 13, 2025: 3D Imaging, Living Lung Cells, & More
We’re covering medical and dental news in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, starting with a new innovation at Boston Children’s Hospital that could become standard practice in orthopedics: 3D…
World’s First 3D Bioprinted Corneal Implant Successfully Implanted in Phase 1 Patient
For the first time anywhere in the world, a corneal implant grown entirely in a lab and printed from living human cells has been transplanted into a human patient. The…
Clecell Turns Stem Cells into 3D Printed Human Skin in the Lab
South Korean biotech startup Clecell has achieved what many tissue engineers have long sought: a reproducible, full-thickness human skin built entirely from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), using bioprinting. Clecell’s…
2.5D Mouse Muscle Tissue Made on Vomit Comet
In space, manufacturing has always been an area with much speculation but little actual progress. The idea is simple: zero or reduced gravity environments may be a better place to…
Bioprinting, Organoids, & Organs-on-a-Chip Work Together to Battle Cancer
Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Knight Cancer Institute are using a combination of bioprinted organoids, organs-on-a-chip, and computational medicine to battle cancer. The team is specifically…
Tiny Bioprinter Could One Day Repair Vocal Cords During Surgery
A team of engineers and surgeons at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, has created the world’s smallest 3D bioprinter, and it could change how doctors repair damaged vocal cords. At…
3D Printing News Briefs, October 25, 2025: Strategic Investment, Inner Ear Organoids, & More
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start off with some business news, as Xact Metal announced continued double digit growth in Q2 and Q3 of 2025, and the…
When Bioprinting Enters the Room: Wyss Institute’s Chris Chen Joins the National Academy of Medicine
Christopher Chen, one of the architects behind Harvard’s 3D Organ Engineering Initiative, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), a rare honor that points to just how…
Scientists 3D Print a Functional Human Colon Model to Study Cancer and Drug Response
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), and the New York Institute of Technology have 3D printed one of the most realistic models of the human colon ever…
October in Pink: 3D Printing’s Role in Healing and Hope
Each October, the world turns pink to remind us of a difficult truth: breast cancer is still the most common cancer among women. While survival rates keep improving, the path…
Puredyne Adds Pressure Monitoring Capabilities to Nozzles for More Precise Bioprinting
Puredyne is a spinoff of dosing nozzle manufacturer ViscoTec, which makes accurate endless piston nozzles for accurate dosing. ViscoTec nozzles power a lot of the silicone and other one and…
