Medical 3D Printing
Atlanta VA First in U.S. Veterans Health Care System to Offer 3D Printed Casts & Splints
The potential for additive manufacturing (AM) in the military is by no means limited to applications like propulsion hardware, drones, and explosives. 3D printed medical devices, for instance, have attracted…
3D Printing News Briefs, October 11, 2025: Metal Powder, Texturizing, Sleep Apnea, & More
We’re starting with material news in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as Continuum Powders has announced availability of its Cobalt-Chrome F75 powder. Moving on, Dyndrite LPBF Pro now supports…
3D Printing News Briefs, October 8, 2025: CSAM Research, 3D Printed Product Warning, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Florida International University acquired a WarpSPEE3D printer from SPEE3D for rapid production of large-scale metal parts. QuickParts announced an extension to its 3D printing…
3D Printing News Briefs, October 4, 2025: Dental Resin, Ceramic Ear Molds, Placenta Organoids, & More
We’re kicking things off today with a little business news, as Raplas appointed Multistation as a sales partner, and Carbon announced commercial availability of its dental FP3D resin in the…
HP Webinar Explores the Promise and Hurdles of Digital O&P Workflows
For decades, orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) have been built by hand. Every brace, orthosis, or artificial limb reflected the skill of a trained craftsperson who shaped and adjusted it with…
Injured Goat Zelda to Get 3D Printed Prosthetic Thanks to Student Rescue
When Lake Erie College junior Abby Butcher rescued Zelda, a goat with devastating leg injuries, she didn’t stop at saving the animal’s life. After Zelda’s amputation surgery, Abby turned to…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 17, 2025: IDEX Printer, NiTi Scaffolds, Cooking Oil, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Raise3D announced the launch of a new printer at FABTECH 2025, and EOS and AM Solutions share about their integrated post-processing ecosystem, first introduced…
Croom Medical Releases Porous Biofuse Geometry for 3D Printed Lattices
Irish contract manufacturer Croom Medical specializes in orthopedic implants manufacturing and has deep experience in using LPBF. The company runs Colibrium, Renishaw, and 3D Systems metal printers and works in…
3DPOD 271: 3D Printing at the Mayo Clinic with Dr. Jonathan Morris
Dr. Jonathan Morris is the Executive Medical Director of Immersive and Experiential Learning at the Mayo Clinic. He is also the Medical Director of Biomedical and Scientific Visualization and helped…
Boston’s Additive Edge: Inside Harvard’s Lewis Lab and the Road to Patients, Part II
When I visited Jennifer Lewis’s lab earlier this summer, doctoral researcher Paul Stankey showed me how the team is laying the groundwork for bioprinting, from stem cells to vascular networks…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 6, 2025: SBIR Awards, Regenerative Medicine, & More
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start with some exciting funding news, as NIST has awarded over nearly $2 million to small businesses working to advance AI, additive…
Handheld 3D Printer Repairs Bone Like a Glue Gun — Tested in Rabbits, Planned for OR Use
A team of researchers from Korea and the U.S. has created a handheld 3D printing device that works like a glue gun, but instead of glue, it prints bone-like material…
Boston’s Additive Edge: Inside Harvard’s Lewis Lab and the Bioprinting Blueprint, Part I
At Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute at Harvard, Jennifer Lewis’s lab is at the intersection of biology and engineering. Part workshop, part incubator for…
HP Dives Deeper Into Orthopedic 3D Printing at AOPA 2025 With New PA 11
HP is announcing that it will have a new generation of PA 11. With the 3D HR PA 11 Gen2 material, the company will offer up to 80% material reusability,…
HP Webinar Unpacks the Future of Digital Orthotics and Prosthetics Workflows
The orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) industry is at a turning point. For much of its history, the process of designing and producing devices like braces, orthoses, and prosthetic limbs has…
3D Printing News Briefs, August 23, 2025: Facial Implants, Tibial Fractures, Lamps, & More
It’s all about medical in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs. BellaSeno established a clinical advisory board. MedCad is donating 3D printed facial implants to war-injured Ukrainians, and researchers in…
DARPA Backs Battelle and Aprecia to Accelerate Pharmaceutical 3D Printing
Back in the ancient history of industrial 3D printing — 2016 — ZipDose, made by Ohio’s Aprecia, became the first drug produced with additive manufacturing (AM) available in U.S. pharmacies…
3D Printing Makes Inhalers for Asthma More Effective
For more than 260 million people worldwide with asthma, inhalers are essential. However, studies show incorrect use in 12–71% of cases, up to 86% for hospitalized patients, and as high…
Bioprinting in Space Pioneers the Future of Medicine
Recent additive manufacturing experiments in microgravity have delivered promising results that could one day revolutionize the healthcare industry on Earth, from personalized wound care to the printing of viable organs…
From Prototype to Patient in Weeks, Not Years: Inside Latin America’s Fast-Track for 3D Printed Implants
While the global 3D printing industry continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible in healthcare, a critical bottleneck threatens to stall the sector’s momentum: the clinical validation gap. International…
Scaling Impact Through Innovation: How 3D Printing Is Transforming Pediatric Prosthetics
Around the world, thousands of children live with limb loss and limited access to proper prosthetic care. In many low-resource settings, these children go without the mobility they deserve, constrained…
Daring AM: 3D Printing Moves Closer to the Clinic
In July 2025, 3D printing in medicine took several bold steps forward, not just as a tool for prototyping or visualization, but as a way to build real, functional treatments…
3D Printing News Briefs, July 26, 2025: Corrosion Resistance, 3D Printed Stents, & More
This weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs are all about research! We’ll start with what’s been called the first comparison of corrosion resistance in 3D printed magnesium and zinc alloys. Then,…
How 3D Printing Helped Kids Walk Again—Join HP’s Webinar to Learn More
What does it take to get a prosthetic limb to a child halfway around the world? For many, getting a prosthetic still involves complex logistics, long waits, and high expenses….
