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Nanoscribe’s Photonic Professional GT 3D Printer Put to Use in Life Sciences Studies on 3D Printed Micro-Objects
We often see 3D printing technology used in science and medical fields such as drug discovery, neuroscience, and regenerative medicine, for applications ranging from 3D printing pills and making hearing aids to developing…
Making Better 3D Printed Bone Scaffolds at Low Temperatures with Robocasting Technique
Scaffolds are an important part of bioprinting, as they provide necessary structure to printed cells while they grow and develop. 3D printed bone scaffolds can help with tissue regrowth, as…
Penn State Uses 3D Near-Field Electrospinning Method to Create Scaffolds for Living Tissue
As of right now, almost every complex transplant tissue, whether it’s a tendon or a kidney or a heart, comes from donors who are living or dead. A research team…
3D Printing News Briefs: October 10, 2017
We’re starting with the kick-off of a popular 3D printing challenge in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, then moving on to a new 3D printer, a 3D printing handbook, a…
UK Researchers Continue Work on Nanokick Bioreactor, Progressing Toward 3D Printing Living Bone
The University of Glasgow received a £2.8 million grant in late 2016 in order to develop 3D printed bone for survivors of landmine blasts, which kill roughly 4,300 people each…
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…
Biomedical Research Team in Spain Working on 3D Printed Corneas to Make Up for Lack of Donors
While there have been some companies researching how to 3D print viable human corneas, it’s not something we hear about often…as least not as much as we hear about other…
10 Highlights of the EnvisionTEC 3D-Bioplotter’s Long Career
Last week, we took a look at what has become one of the most commonly used 3D bioprinters in the industry. The 3D-Bioplotter from EnvisionTEC has now been used in more…
University of Wollongong Researchers 3D Print Brain Tissue From Human Stem Cells
When it comes to treating disease and injury, the brain might be the most difficult organ in the entire body. Everything else in the body is controlled by the brain,…
Australian Surgeons Successfully Use 3D Stem Cell BioPen to Draw Knee Cartilage into Sheep, Ready for Commercialization, Human Trials
When it comes to 3D printing in the medical field, it seems like Australia is the place to watch these days. In just a few of many examples, the country…
GWU SEAS Research Team Publishes Study on 3D Printing Synthetic Nerve Tissues to Help Patients with Bone and Nerve Damage
3D bioprinting is a pretty large category, and it isn’t just about manufacturing organs. Scientists and researchers all over the world are using 3D printing technology to build tissue lattices,…
Researchers 3D Print Cartilage with Stem Cells Taken from Human Knee
One of the challenges of 3D bioprinting is getting the stem cells which make up the biological “ink” to survive the 3D printing process – not to mention keeping them…
3D Systems and United Therapeutics to Develop 3D Printing Biotechnology for Solid-Organ Scaffolds
No matter how many times I read or write about it, I am still overwhelmed and amazed when I see what 3D printing technology is currently able to do for…
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….
Professor of Microfluidics Discusses 3D Printing Benefits and Possible Future Improvements with Ultimaker
A lab-on-a-chip is pretty self-explanatory: it’s a miniature laboratory that is printed onto a microchip. But for the past 25 years, Professor David Barrow of Cardiff University in Wales has studied microfluidics, which…
3D Printing Helps Create Patch That Reduces Heart Failure
Heart failure affects approximately 6 million adults in the United States and is a contributing cause in one of every nine deaths. For those afflicted with heart failure, about half of them…
Celprogen 3D Prints a Pancreas from PLA and Human Stem Cells
The pancreas is one of the most critical organs in the human body – if something goes wrong with it, it can affect your whole life, or even threaten it….
3D Printed Scaffold for Artistic Cell Culture
At the juncture between creative exploration and scientific technology lies the work of Amy Karle, who is the current Artist in Residence at Autodesk. The idea behind her work was…
3D Tech Eases Children’s Fears, Streamlines the Process During Ear Implant Procedure
Undergoing even a routine medical procedure can be unnerving, no matter your age. But for children, whose understanding of rules and confidence in strangers is just developing, it can be…
High-Tech Partnership Reaches New High, 3D Printing Heart Tissue in Zero-G
That’s one small pulse for a heart, one giant beat for heart health. Okay, it’s not exactly beating yet, but the latest in heart health is pretty literally out of…
MESO-BRAIN Initiative to Use 3D Printing to Emulate the Human Neural Network
We all know just how critical a healthy and functional human brain is to our well-being and livelihood. An essential organ packed with soft nervous tissues, its nature is both…
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…
EpiBone Uses 3D Technology to Grow Human Bones Outside the Body
The human body has amazing capacities for repairing itself, but it’s far from perfect; some injuries or deformities are too much for the body itself to make whole. For ages,…
Researchers are 3D Printing Living Brain Tissue to Eventually Treat Brain Disorders
Sometimes when covering the 3D printing space, I have to look at my calendar to make sure we are still living in the year 2014. The technology is advancing so…
