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…