biomaterials
Harvard Fellowship Brings Professor and Student Together to Work on 3D Printed Artificial Bone Implants
Growing up in Jordan, University of Sydney biomedical engineering professor Hala Zreiqat, a 2016-2017 Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, originally wanted to be an interior designer, but…
Custom 3D Printed CT-Bone Graft Implants Coming to Japan and Europe
We first heard of innovative CT-Bone technology three years ago, when Dutch company Xilloc reached an agreement with Tokyo-based Next21 K.K., the creator of CT-Bone, to bring 3D printable bone into…
New Multi-Material Bioprinting Technique Advances On-Demand Complex Tissue 3D Printing
Advances continue to be made in the progressive field of bioprinting, pushing toward increased ability to 3D print human tissue. A study completed by a collaboration of researchers from UCLA, Brigham and…
Researchers Create Portable Bioprinter for Deep Skin Wound Repair
While portable 3D printers do exist, the majority of them are not handheld, and generally use readily available materials, like PLA. But an innovative team of researchers from the University…
RAPID + TCT 2018: 3D Printing Materials News from Roboze and EnvisionTEC
The RAPID + TCT event is getting started today in Fort Worth, Texas, and 3DPrint.com is continuing to bring you the latest news from the showroom floor. We’ve been sharing announcements with…
DSM Helping Dutch Sports Initiative 3D Print Custom Sports Mouthguards On the Spot
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that over 600,000 visits to the emergency room each year in the US are due to sports-related dental injuries, which just makes…
China Food and Drug Administration Issues New Draft Guidance for 3D Printed Medical Devices
Regulations make the world go ’round…especially when it comes to 3D printed medical devices. The US FDA released draft guidance in May 2016, seeking feedback and continuing to explore the…
Australian Researchers Bling It On with Diamond-Coated 3D Printed Titanium Implants
As the song says, diamonds are forever – and not just in terms of jewelry. New research coming out of Australia this week illustrates that the stone has been successfully…
GE Reports Looks to The Future While Celebrating 10th Anniversary of First 3D Printed Hip Implant
There’s plenty of data in the medical community that has been collected over the years about what kinds of treatments and implants work, and what doesn’t. But remember, while it…
Researchers Develop Microfluidic Technique for 3D Printing Living Cells for Tissue Engineering
There are multiple different applications for 3D bioprinting, and many researchers are hard at work to achieve the successful 3D printing of living cells. Now, scientists at the University of Twente (UT)…
Hybrid Meta-Biomaterials Used to Make Better, Longer-Lasting 3D Printed Hip Implants
3D printing is increasingly seeing applications using biomaterials and metamaterials – and now with a new meta-biomaterial. A team of researchers from TU Delft developed the hybrid materials – essentially the biomedical variant…
Wyss Institute Researchers Continue to Advance Organ Engineering Through 3D Bioprinting
An organ transplant is a pretty miraculous procedure on its own, and its development and continuing improvement has enormously benefited its recipients. More than 30,000 people receive transplants each year…
MIT Students to Investigate Medical 3D Printing Applications of New Citrus-Based Biomaterial
New materials for 3D printing are being developed on a regular basis, and a subset of materials developers are focusing specifically on biomaterials. Biomaterials are exactly what they sound like…
Researchers Combine Carbon Nanotubes and Nanocellulose to 3D Print Conductive Microfibers
3D printing technology can only go as far as the different materials that are able to be printed…but from metal and plastic to sand and even food, I don’t think…
VTT Studying Nanocellulose and 3D Printing for Wound Care and Decoration
For the past two years, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, a top research and technology company in the Nordic countries, has been developing new bio-material applications for cellulose-based compounds…
Bioprinting Organs: Researchers Create Less Expensive Bioink Based in 3D Printed Gelatin Hydrogels
3D printed hydrogels have had many different applications in the medical field, from delivering precise doses of medicine and making custom meniscus implants to engineering tissue so that in the…
3D Printed Biomaterial Sleeves May Reduce the Risk of Body Piercing Infections
I got my first ear cartilage piercing when I was a freshman in high school, and had already removed it before I began my sophomore year – it had gotten…
Degrade On Demand: Brown University Researchers Create Dynamic 3D Printing Biomaterials
We’ve seen 3D printable biomaterials before, but never any like the ones engineers at Rhode Island-based Brown University have been working on. They have developed a technique to make 3D…
Collaboration Key to 3D Bioprinting Stem Cell Research Success at BioFab3D@ACMD in Australia
Medical researchers and scientists have created all kinds of medical marvels, from brain tissue and cartilage to a heart and a pancreas, by 3D printing stem cells. In Australia, Swinburne…
RESHAPE 17: Programmable Skins Competition Kicks Off With Partners IN(3D)USTRY and Noumena Studio
Online digital platform RESHAPE promotes the design, research, and production of digital ideas, and represents a large international community of makers, designers, and customers who are inspired by innovation and…
Advancing the Use of 3D Printing in Medicine at RAPID + TCT
In the last few years, headlines have suggested that the use of additive manufacturing in medicine is a new way to save and improve lives. The truth is, it’s not…
How 3D Printing Can Help Businesses Go Green
3D printing has a lot of potential impacts and uses in business. Prototyping to producing intermediates and making end use 3D printed parts are just some of the application areas…
Researchers Turn Apple Waste into Biomaterials to Make 3D Matrices for Tissue Regeneration
Nearly every day, 3D printing technology is helping to advance the medical field in leaps and bounds, from 3D printed medical implements and medical models, to 3D printed prosthetics and even…
3D Printing Helps a Man Grow a New Ear on His Arm
You’ve probably heard the phrase “the walls have ears” but what you may not have heard is that in a hospital room in China, a man’s arm has ears too….
