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BellaSeno’s Clinical Trial on 3D-Printed Breast Implants Shows Promising Early Results
Bioprinting firm BellaSeno has provided a public update on its ongoing clinical trial for resorbable breast scaffolding. The trial uses patients’ own fat with a 3D-printed scaffold, which gradually reabsorbs…
3D Printing Unpeeled: Screen Printing Drugs, Repair Process for Marines & PCL Drug Release
Contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Adare Pharma Solutions, is partnering with Laxxon Medical. The CDMO will use Screen-Printed Innovative Drug (SPID) to make oral dosage forms where they hope…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Trachea, Aluminum Alloys & HP Color 3D Printers
A lot of research has gone into 3D printing parts of or splints for the trachea. Now Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is offering patients bioresorbable trachea splints. The product might…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Cushions, Open Source Five Axis and a Novel 3D Printing Tech
A Swiss foundation is working wit a patient group to make a 3D printed cushion for paraplegics and other long term wheelchair users. They are making a cushion that is…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Disposable 3D Printed Clay, Insect PLA and Antimicrobial Ferroelectric Composites
After Olivier van Herpt, Unfold Studio and others there is a new 3D printing clay effort in town. The Berlin based startup Geastar says that it 3D prints bowls made…
3D Printed Breast & Chest Implants Enter Clinical Trials
Medtech company BellaSeno GmbH, headquartered in Leipzig, Germany, with its BellaSeno Pty subsidiary in Brisbane, Australia, specializes in the development of resorbable soft tissue and bone reconstruction implants, made with…
ETH Zurich Develops Bioresorbable 3D Printed Airway Stent
ETH Zurich, along with University Hospital Zurich and the University of Zurich, have developed a bioresorbable airway stent. The custom made stents are 3D printed using digital light processing (DLP)…
Patent Issued for Navy’s 3D Printing Material for Marine-Biodegradable Sensors and Robotics
Equipment like autonomous or unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) can help researchers get a closer look at under-the-sea environments that they are unable to easily traverse themselves. UUVs are used for…
3D Printing: Successful Scaffolds in Bone Regeneration
In ‘Comprehensive Review on Full Bone Regeneration through 3D Printing Approaches,’ the authors review new developments and solutions in tissue engineering for the formation of cells, as well as proposing…
University of Chemical Technology: Strengthening FDM 3D Printing with Starch Additive for PCL
Researchers from the University of Chemical Technology in Beijing continue the growing trend for strengthening existing materials with additives, outlining their findings in the recently published ‘Polycaprolactone/polysaccharide functional composites for…
Beijing University of Chemical Technology: 3D Printed HA/PCL Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
3D printed bone scaffolds used for tissue engineering purposes need to have a good amount of mechanical strength, since the scaffold needs to be able to provide support for the…
Omid Afarinan is Bioprinting in Iran
When we were assembling our bioprinting world map, we omitted some companies. We are adding to that map and will continue to do so until we have everyone. One of…
Bioprinting 101: How to Bioprint at Home
Bioprinted Hydrogels Bioprinting is an exciting area to follow as it invigorates the ideas of Frankenstein and a bunch of other sci-fi scenarios that make us slightly paranoid. So how…
Researchers Develop Tough Hydrogels for 3D Printing Applications in Repairing Load-Bearing Soft Tissues
The water-swollen polymer networks we know as hydrogels have many applications in the biomedical industry, but in order to use them to repair and regenerate load-bearing soft tissues, such as cartilage, blood…
3D Printed PLA and PCL Composite Biodegradable Stents Show Promise
Biodegradable stents have shown great potential in reducing complications in patients, but they require further study, according to the authors of a paper entitled “3D-Printed PCL/PLA Composite Stents: Towards a…
Five Children Receive Ear Implants Made From Their Own Cells, Thanks to 3D Printed Molds and Scaffolds
Unilateral microtia is a congenital deformity that impacts the function and shape of the ear, and according to the Stanford Ear Institute, it’s estimated to occur in roughly one out of every…
Flexible 3D Printing Filaments
Flexible 3D printed materials have a lot to offer us. Rather than just make rigid things, flexible materials can let us make wearables, shoe soles, clothing and other things such…
The State of Bioprinting and 3D Printing in Medicine
Bioprinting has been a much hyped and anticipated technology development. The idea of being able to 3D print organs is a very powerful one indeed. If researchers are successful in…
POSTECH Research Team Publishes Paper on Single-Step Process for 3D Bioprinting Synthetic Skin
I remember teachers asking the question, “What is the largest human organ?” in class many years ago, and most kids shouted out incorrect guesses, like the stomach or the brain….
3D4Makers: Father-Son Team Tell Us About New Filament Extrusion Technology and Building a Business Spurred by Failed 3D Prints
More than a few 3D printing-related companies have arisen almost by accident. A maker has a problem with a particular aspect of 3D printing, comes up with a solution to…
Johns Hopkins Researchers Develop 3D Printable Bones Using Real Bone Cells
According to Johns Hopkins researchers, every year due to birth defect, trauma or cancer, more than 200,000 people will need replacement bones in their face or skull. Typically, doctors would…
3D Printed Scaffolding Implant Used to Help Realign Patient’s Eyes After Tumor Removal
If you’ve been keeping up with the news, you are aware that 3D printing of medical implants and devices is not such a rare thing anymore; what is, however, still…
