Beauty the Bald Eagle’s 3D Printed Beak

3D printing technology provided the solution for Beauty the Bald Eagle, who was shot in the face by poachers and lost her beak. Beauty survived the incident with the help of Birds of Prey Northwest animal rescue centre, but without…

3D Printed Spine

Spinal cord injuries are often permanent and life changing injuries with limited options available for treatment. With the aid of the latest 3D printing technology, a Cambridge (MA) based company InVivo Therapeutics has developed a biocompatible polymer scaffold to provide…

3D printed Exoskeleton arms change the life of a little girl

Stratasys released a heart-melting case study on how 3D printing changed the life of 4-year old Emma Lavelle, by allowing her to use her hands the first time in her life. The researchers at Alfred I. duPont Hospital Children hospital…

Make your own medicine at home

University of Glasgow’s Professor Lee Cronin and his team have conducted a study using a standard 3D printer in order to attain what they call reactionware. The research team have added some chemical components in the main 3D printing foundation…

The big 3D printed niches

Medicine is set to become of the most imminent industries to adopt 3D printing technology across multiple different applications. We have been reading about masses of people wearing a 3D printed hearing aids and dentists making new teeth with less…

Dr. Atala on TED about printing a human kidney

Dr. Anthony Atala shows an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that produces a transplantable kidney from living cells. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala’s patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; he…