3D Systems purchased Phenix, a French producer of Direct Metal Sintering (DMS) 3D Printers last July and has since begun to explore new business scenarios. The Phenix Machines, which have been transla…
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Baby Heart Patient Saved by 3D Printing
Hospital officials at the Kosair Children’s Hospital have stated that 3D printing was used to support an infant pediatric heart patient for the first time recently. Doctors operating on a 14-mon…
Harvard Scientists Inch Closer to Getting 3D Printed Organs’ Blood Flowing
Research into 3D bioprinted artificial human tissues represents the promise of a future in which any part of our physical body can be replaced, starting from cartilage and soft tissues all the way to …
University of Alabama Students Develop 3D Bioprinting Extruder and Software
There are companies going after 3D bioprinting, like Organovo and Rainbow Biosciences. And there are large research bodies and graduate universities making big breakthroughs with the technology, like …
Walking Again with 3D Printed Exoskeleton
Amanda Boxtel was an avid skier before suffering a serious fall on the slopes of Aspen, Colorado in 1992. The accident left her paralyzed from the waist down, and she was told she would never be able …
Learn About Saving Lives and Money at Boston’s Additive Manufacturing Medical and Healthcare Conference
Generic “industry” conferences usually are boring. They are interesting only for those directly linked to the particular subject being discussed and even for them it is mostly an obligatio…
How a Medical Clinic in the Bolivian Rainforest Might Use 3D Printing
Since I ran my family’s medical clinic, Centro Medico Humberto Parra, in 2007, my life has taken a very strange journey. I had no idea that I’d end up writing about 3D printing as I do today. I was so…
Ancient Chinese Woodblock Printing Influences a New & Exciting Bioprinting Technique
Researchers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute have potentially developed a way to 3D print living cell tissue without using unreliable inkjet style printing techniques. By applying the basic…
3D Printing and Telemedicine Aid in the Cranial Surgery of a 6-Month-Old Infant
3D printing is increasingly used to prep doctors for surgery. With patient-tailored models of a given surgical area, surgeons can better understand the environment that they’re getting into, ultimatel…
The Artist and the Prosthetist: An Interview with Tom Most on 3D Printing
A short while ago, I got a chance to attend the 3D Printer World Expo. Most drawn to the medical applications of the technology, I sat in on a lecture series titled “Innovations in Medical 3D Printing…