drug testing
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Volumetric Glass 3D Printing & A 3D Printed Ecstasy Drug Test
Skoda is doing a contest with Prusa and Printables.com to let you 3D print your own Skoda. They have Octavia and Enyaq files up on Printables including a 1:72 and…
Carcinotech to Fund Mini-Tumors 3D Printing with $5.3M
MedTech startup Carcinotech, which has developed a technology to create tiny, 3D tumor models using cells from patients for cancer treatment, raised a seed investment of £4.2 million ($5.3 million)….
Cell Culture Startup to Tackle Heart Disease with Mitsubishi, Sumitomo and Toppan
Kyoto University spinout Myoridge was founded in 2016 as a bioventure, piggybacking on patented technology developed at the university’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS). Since then, the company cultivates…
How this Medtech Startup Found a Niche Bioprinting Tumor Models
In the battle against a disease that kills roughly 26,000 people each day, the importance of greater speed in drug development is critical. In 2018, an estimated 9.5 million people…
AMS Speaker Spotlight: Analyzing the Market for Smart Bioinks
One of the largest barriers to producing new bioprinting applications is creating and refining the advanced bioinks required for printing human tissue models. For example, consider the use of 3D…
Bioprinting Firm REGEMAT3D Preps for IPO with Crowdfunding Campaign
In 2022, Spanish biotech company REGEMAT 3D will open an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to add to the €402,500 ($457,000) raised during its first financing round. The funds will…
Readily3D Bioprinting Pancreas to Help EU-Funded Program Develop Diabetes Treatment
As the World Health Organization reports, the prevalence of diabetes has been rising over the last few decades, and there are currently around 422 million people around the world who…
Allegro 3D Receives Almost $1M in Grant Award to Develop Bioprinter
Bioprinting company Allegro 3D has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant for $997,692. The grant money will support the development of…
More Efficient Drug Screening with 3D Bioprinting
Taking a drug to market is a competitive, costly and challenging process involving preclinical laboratory and animal testing before the even more time-consuming and expensive four phases of human clinical…
LulzBot Releases Its First Bioprinter
Bioprinting is revolutionizing the way 3D printed tissues can be used to mimic in vivo conditions. The fields of regenerative medicine, pharmaceutical development, and cosmetic testing are benefiting from this…
Interview with Tamer Mohamed of Aspect Biosystems on Advancing Tissue Therapeutics
While attending The University of British Columbia (UBC), Tamer Mohamed, along with fellow graduate student Simon Beyer, began working at the Walus Laboratory on the development of a novel microfluidics-based…
Bioprinting 101 Part 18 – Pharmaceutical Testing
A pharmaceutical test can be referred to as a clinical trial or a rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects. In…
3D Printing News Briefs: March 13, 2018
We’re starting off with plenty of business news on today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, before moving on to an event report and some science for your Tuesday afternoon. Agreements and…
Researchers Use 3D Printing to Create Organoids for Drug Testing in Monitored Body-On-A-Chip System
An organ-on-a-chip is a micro physiological system – a small cell culture chip that can mimic the structure and function of living human tissue. Organs-on-chips are helpful in terms of drug testing,…
University of Michigan Adapts Electronics Manufacturing Technology to 3D Print Medicine
If you go onto any 3D model marketplace and search for “pill case,” you can find all sorts of 3D printable cases that allow you to sort and store your…
German and Canadian Organizations Partner to Develop 3D Printed Contractile Tissue
It’s been a big week for bioprinting, with news of planned 3D printed organs coming from both Prellis Biologics and BIOLIFE4D. The bioprinting world is one that doesn’t slow down, and…
3D Bioprinted Liver Tissue Constructs Used to Develop More Accurate Drug Toxicity Testing System
While many think that bioprinting means that we’ll soon be able to 3D print a brand new organ with the touch of a button, that’s not the case quite yet….
Why Drug Testing May Be the Most Important Application of 3D Bioprinting
3D bioprinting is, needless to say, great cause for excitement. Usually, most people’s minds go immediately to one idea: the idea that in the future, we may be able to…
Recently Released Studies Show Increasing Promise of Organovo 3D Printed Kidney and Liver Tissue for Pharmaceutical Testing
If you’re only marginally familiar with bioprinting and have heard of just one company in the industry, it’s likely that company is Organovo. The San Diego company was one of the…
University of California San Diego’s 3D Printed Liver Tissue May Be the Closest We’ve Gotten to a Real Printed Liver
While scientists have been working on 3D printing all types of human tissue, there’s been a particular focus on the liver – for good reason. The organ plays a critical…
Organovo Presents Data on Fully Cellular 3D Bioprinted Kidney Tissue
Bioprinting is in our future. No longer the stuff of sci-fi dreams, the technology is taking a true hold in today’s world — and even in the dictionary. By bringing…
Organovo’s 3D Printed Liver Tissue Achieves Important Toxicology Test Results
Probably one of the more exciting companies within the 3D printing space is that of Organovo. The company, based in San Diego California, has an ultimate goal of 3D printing…
Bioprinting Livers: Starting Small
At this point in time, many leading college research departments have begun working on various aspects of 3D bioprinting. Whether it’s developing anything from 3D blood vessels to growing organs…
