British manufacturing company Renishaw is supporting the establishment of a specialist medical 3D printing center in Southern Ontario, Canada. Known as the Additive Design in Surgical Solutions (ADEISS) Centre, the project is the [...]
Medical & Dental
Researchers from Duke University have used a $300 3D printer together with a special hydrogel material to create life-like knee implants. The group has attempted to address the large number of meniscus knee injuries that are notor [...]
DePuy Synthes, an orthopaedic and neurological branch of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), has acquired 3D printing technology from Michigan-based Tissue Regeneration Systems. The full financial terms remain undisclosed, but the t [...]
As medicine searches for new ways to improve procedures and patient care, 3D printed and modeled organs have become a valued approach to simulate the conditions of the human body. As not every operation can take a "textbook" appro [...]
Parsippany, NJ based Onkos Surgical, Inc., was founded in 2015 as specialist medtech company with a focus on surgical oncology. Early investors in the company were 3D printing venture, 3D Systems who has now provided further finan [...]
Researchers from Seoul National University of Science and Technology in Korea have published the schematics for an open source 3D bioprinter. The authors of the paper explain that 3D printing, “is considered to be a major driving [...]
Professor Marc Clement, chairman of Swansea University's Institute of Life Science in Wales, has given insight into how 3D printing, nanotechnology, and biochemistry will be combined in a project to make smart bandages in the UK. [...]
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have demonstrated how 3D printing can save both time and money. A team led by Dr. Gianmario Scotti 3D printed disposable microreactors and the research, plus STL files, is now available on [...]
3D printing may hold the key to beating the primary cause of death in the U.S. - heart disease. With almost a quarter of deaths in North America attributable to heart disease, this new research from the University of Minnesota has [...]
Doctors in Shanghai, China have used 3D printing to reconstruct a woman's face. Jin Qi, from a small village in Hubei Province Central China lost her nose and lips when she was 2 years old and has felt disfigured ever since. In a [...]
