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Bioprinting 101 – Part 14, DNA
This is part 14 of our bioprinting series. Learn about DNA and how it is leveraged for bioprinting purposes.
DNA Biosensing with 3D Printing
Biosensor Structure 3D printing is useful in how it makes tools for us humans. Tools are the gateway to innovation within our world. 3D Printing helps different industries because of…
New Research Could Lead to DNA 3D Printer
Technology is capable of amazing things, but it doesn’t mean those things are easy. It’s incredible that scientists can produce DNA in a lab, but the process is difficult, lengthy…
Using 3D Printing to Sample the Ocean Floor
When we think of biodiversity, we may think of forests with wildly differing species of birds, insects and other animals, or seas with wide varieties of fish. Sometimes biodiversity is…
3D Printing Can Help Astronauts Study Their Own Blood Samples In Space
Let’s say you go to your annual physical, and the doctor wants you to get a blood sample. No problem, right? It’s easy to take care of here on Earth,…
UCSF Uses 3D Cell Patterning Technology to Fold Living Tissue Into Complex Shapes
The concept behind the ancient, well-known paper folding art known as origami can also be applied to an organism’s development process – as an egg turns into an embryo, and…
Read Before You Vape: 3D Printed Screening Device Shows That E-Cigarettes Are Just as Bad as Tobacco Cigarettes
In season three of Friends, my favorite sitcom in the world, Rachel Green tries to help her friend Chandler Bing quit smoking, first by physically removing cigarettes from his mouth,…
UCLA & Swedish Researchers Create 3D Printed Microscope Attachment to Aid in Field Diagnostics for Cancer
Once again, 3D printing is allowing for impacts in the medical field that most of us could not have begun to comprehend just several years ago. While we report on…
Making Visible the Invisible: Artist Uses DNA Phenotyping to Create 3D Printed Portraits of Incarcerated Chelsea Manning
As of this year, Chelsea Manning has been in prison for six years. The US soldier has been incarcerated since 2010, when she was arrested for leaking confidential information, including diplomatic…
3D Printed Genetic Models May Help Find Future Cancer Treatments
There is so much to know about the complexity of life that has already been discovered and yet there is an even greater amount that still remains to be explained. One…
This 3D Printed “DNA Lamp” is Incredibly Mesmerizing to Stare At
There has been so much made of 3D printing as a means for rapid prototyping, but one area many people certainly didn’t realize it would impact in such a huge way…
Researchers Use DNA as ‘Smart Glue’ to Provide Structure for 3D Bio-Printing
The abilities of 3D printing to create bio-materials is on the cutting edge of science, but has been somewhat limited to date by technicalities like massive expenses and the fact…
Synthetic DNA to Become “Ink” for 3D Printed Nanoscale Structures in Medical and Scientific Applications
We’ve heard about filament to produce our common and not so common 3D printed objects and devices. We’ve also heard about the medical advances that 3D printing facilitates, such as…
Researchers Combine Ideas of 3D Printing With Molecular Self-assembly – Is Molecular Manufacturing Next?
What’s the ultimate extension of 3D printing technology? Where could 3D printing take us in the future? For me, I believe that eventually, whether it’s in my lifetime or not,…
New DNA Technology May Soon Allow People to 3D Print Their Face from a Saliva Swap
Every year thousands of major crimes go unsolved. Imagine if police could gather DNA evidence at a crime scene, and within minutes to hours, turn that sample into a 3D…
