bioprinting
Can Your 3D Printer Become a Bioprinter with ViscoTec’s New Nozzle?
German firm ViscoTec makes all manner of dispensing nozzles. For years they’ve been used in 3D printing to print silicone on standard material extrusion machines adapted to work with their…
Bioprinting Battle Ends: BICO and Organovo Come to Licensing Agreement
The clash between bioprinting pioneer and powerhouse have come to an end. San Diego, California-based Organovo Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONVO) and Gothenburg, Sweden-based BICO (OTCPK: CLLKF, Nasdaq Stockholm: BICO.ST) have…
AMS Speaker Spotlight: The Current Uses of Bioprinting
Authors: Taci Pereira, Vice President and General Manager of Bioprinting for 3D Systems, and Yu Shrike Zhang, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, will be participating in Additive Manufacturing Strategies…
Bioprinting and Industrial 3D Printing Converge: 3D Systems CEO Dr. Jeff Graves
Now that Jeff Graves has served as president and CEO of 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) for nearly two years, we are able to gain better insight into his leadership style. We can…
Harvard Bioprinting Tech Licensed to Ex-Organovo Execs for Bioprinted Kidneys
San Diego-based Trestle Biotherapeutics has initiated an agreement with Harvard University to license the school’s stem cell and bioprinting technology. The goal is to 3D print kidney tissue for regenerative…
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…
Sydney Bioprinting Firm Closes $25M Series B Round
In a Series B round led by Australia’s largest venture capital (VC) firm, Blackbird Ventures, Sydney-headquartered biotech startup Inventia raised $25 million (A$35 million). The company also landed in the…
Bioprinting BICO Endorses FDA Modernization Act of 2021
The Swedish firm BICO, formerly CELLINK, has endorsed the FDA Modernization Act of 2021. Formally known as H.R. 2565/ S. 2952, the bill would replace major portions of the 1938…
Prellis Biologics Secures $14.5M for Bioprinted Lymph Node
Prellis Biologics secured a $14.5 million series B round lead by Celesta Capital with existing shareholders Khosla Ventures. Prellis has an Externalized Immune System (EXIS) platform which allows researchers to discover…
Lab 3D Prints E. coli Ink for Research into Biofilms
Some of the most fascinating and/or shocking developments in 3D printing over the past decade have involved the application of biomimicry: the creation of machines, materials, or systems whose designs…
AMS 2022 Lines up New Speakers and Sponsors for 3D Printing Event
The Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS) summit is scheduled to take place in New York City this coming March 1 to 3, 2022 in a hybrid format: in-person and online, as…
Bioprinted Living Structures Release Anti-Cancer Drug, Absorb Toxins
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Northwestern University, and other institutions have, for the first time, bioprinted living structures without the use of any polymers aside from the…
Bioprinted Brain Cells Made Possible with Laser-Based 3D Printing
Scientists from the Université de Montréal have published a study detailing the ability to bioprint adult brain cells. Key to the research was a new laser-assisted technology that made it…
3D Printed Pork to Enter Chinese Market via CellX
One of the biggest difficulties presented by industrial agriculture involves the contradictions between the constantly growing scale of production on the one hand, and on the other, the capacity that…
Seaweed Bioink Heralds More Sustainable Future for 3D Printing
As 3D printing becomes more common, there is a growing need for specialized inks that can make the process more sustainable. It must also be suitable for creating products like…
Pollen-Based Bioink Heralds New Potential for Bioprinting Drugs
Bioprinting has made its way out of the lab and…into other labs. We still haven’t seen a true bioprinted organ implant, but the technology has so evolved and proliferated that…
Bioprinted Waygu Beef Developed by Osaka Researchers
The bioprinted meat sector is experiencing a surprising boom. While we haven’t seen any widespread deployment of any 3D printed meat or meat substitute, there are a number of pilot…
Startup Accelerator, Singapore: 3D Printed Magnets, Noodles, and Implants
One of the countries that is doing a bang-up job of stimulating the 3D printing sector is Singapore. Through Nanyang Technological University’s National Additive Manufacturing – Innovation Cluster (NAMIC) coordinating…
3D Printed Coral Could Make for Viable Bone Grafts, Say Singapore Researchers
There may soon be a new method for creating bone grafts by incorporating coral materials into 3D printed implants. Currently, diseased or damaged bones are repaired or regenerated using one…
Aleph Farms Secures $105M to Scale Cultivated Meat Technology Ahead of 2022 Launch
The Israeli foodtech startup that 3D printed the first slaughter-free beef steak in space has raised $105 million in funding. Aleph Farms uses bioprinting technology and real cow cells, without…
Brinter Gets $1.2M in Seed Round to Expand Bioprinting
Finnish company Brinter, started in 2019, has just received $1.2 million from Innovestor in order to expand internationally. The company makes modular bioprinters. For example, you can buy a Brinter…
ROKIT Healthcare advances audience access to bioprinting with bioprinting exhibitions and workshops
ROKIT Healthcare is hosting a series of educational workshops for students, teachers, and professionals to teach and highlight the fundamentals of bioprinting and its applications in healthcare. Previous workshops were…
ROKIT Healthcare develops novel cartilage regeneration therapies using bioprinting
ROKIT Healthcare, in cooperation with a Massachusetts-based U.S. hospital, has completed pre-clinical studies for cartilage regeneration using the 3D bioprinting technology and is in the process of clinical studies with…
ROKIT Healthcare’s bioprinting-based diabetic foot treatment kit registered as a U.S. FDA medical device
ROKIT Healthcare has completed registration of its Dr. INVIVO-based diabetic foot treatment with the U.S. FDA and has successfully completed clinical studies in the U.S. Since 2019, the company has…
