A team at the University of Waterloo has built a digital manufacturing system that prints custom contact lenses in roughly 20 minutes, raising the prospect that a patient could be measured, have a lens designed, and walk out wearing it…
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BellaSeno Expands its Breast Scaffold Trial Following Positive Results
German medical startup BellaSeno has enrolled 30 patients across two Australian trials of a polycaprolactone breast scaffold designed to regenerate tissue without leaving a permanent foreign body. The 30 patients are spread across a first-in-human safety study that ran from…
3D Printing Pilot Targets Prosthetic Socket Production in The Gambia
British charity STAND has begun a pilot program in The Gambia that applies 3D scanning and printing to the production of prosthetic sockets, the custom-made part that joins an amputee’s residual limb to an artificial leg. The initiative, co-financed by…
IU Health Brings 3D Printed Surgical Models In-House
Nonprofit healthcare system located in the U.S. Indiana University Health has officially opened its upgraded 3D Print Studio at the 16 Tech Innovation District, marking the occasion with a ceremonial ribbon cutting. The facility gives IU Health clinical teams the…
SHINING 3D Dental’s Ceramix-Nano Takes Chairside Printing to a New Level
SHINING 3D Dental, dental division of Chinese company SHINING 3D, officially brought the Ceramix-Nano to market on June 18, stepping into the growing race for compact, clinic-ready ceramic printers with a device that sits on a countertop and delivers permanent…
Queen’s University Engineers Open-Source Above-Elbow Prosthetic
Queen’s University Canada engineering students have spent three years developing a mechanical, electronics-free 3D printed prosthetic for above-elbow amputees, filling a design gap that left migrants on the Thailand-Myanmar border without options. Biomedical computing student Emese Elkind has led a…
Artificial Retinas Manufactured in Orbit Show Superior Results, Offering New Hope for Incurable Vision Loss
Connecticut-based biotech LambdaVision has spent nearly a decade turning the International Space Station (ISS) into its primary manufacturing floor. The company has developed an artificial retina, which is assembled from hundreds of alternating layers of bacteriorhodopsin, a light-sensitive protein. On…
MIT Team 3D Prints Low-Cost Nozzle Arrays for Layered Drug-Delivery Particles
Researchers at MIT have shown that a complex class of microscopic nozzle, normally built only inside semiconductor cleanrooms, can be produced in a matter of hours using 3D printing. The devices, known as triaxial electrospray emitters, generate microscopic droplets made…
Materialise Backs Replasia to Expand Personalized Hip Preservation
Belgian technology company Materialise has announced an investment in Replasia, a Belgian medical technology start-up focused on hip preservation. The company develops anatomical analysis software alongside personalized, 3D printed devices intended to delay or avoid joint replacement. For Materialise, the…
Harvard 3D Prints Filaments That Bend and Contract Like Biological Muscle
Researchers at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a 3D printing method capable of producing hair-thin filaments that bend, twist, expand, or contract in response to temperature, behaving, in essence, like programmable artificial muscles.…
