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.…

AMA: Healthcare: When the Simulator Becomes the Teacher: How 3D Printing Is Redefining Surgical Training

3D Printing for Healthcare is the topic of our next event, AMA: Healthcare 2026 on June 4th. A French collaborative team presented the case for 3D printed surgical simulators at AMA: Healthcare 2025, walking attendees through the development of Otosurg,…

AMA: Healthcare: The PolyUnity Method: Hospital 3DP from Idea to End Product

With AMA: Healthcare 2026 on June 4th putting 3D printing in healthcare under the spotlight, voices from across the industry are weighing in on where the technology is heading. Hospitals across Canada are sitting on unmet clinical needs, custom devices,…

AMA: Healthcare: 3D Printing Is Reshaping Custom Medical Devices

3D Printing for Healthcare is the topic of our next event, AMA: Healthcare on June 4th. For decades, orthotics and prosthetics relied on the same fundamental craft: plaster molds, thermoformed plastic, and hands-on adjustments at every fitting. The results were…

AMA: Healthcare: Redefining Preclinical Testing: New Biofabrication Approach at Newcastle University

3D Printing for Healthcare is the topic of our next online event, AMA: Healthcare 2026 on June 4th. At the center of that discussion is work being done not in a clinical setting, but at the intersection of materials science,…

AMA: Healthcare: Industrial Scalability for O&P Production

With AMA: Healthcare 2026 on June 4th putting 3D printing in healthcare under the spotlight, voices from across the industry are weighing in on where the technology is heading. Among the clearest is EOS, the Munich-founded laser powder bed technology…

AMA: Healthcare LMM Metal AM: From Lab to Clinical-Grade Parts

3D Printing for Healthcare is the focus of AMA: Healthcare 2026 on June 4th,  register now to join the conversation. Two companies are making a coordinated push to move lithography-based metal manufacturing out of the research lab and onto the…

AMA: Healthcare: Human “Digital Twins” as the Mass-Customization Layer in Healthcare

With AMA: Healthcare 2026 on June 4th putting 3D printing in healthcare under the spotlight, voices from across the industry are weighing in on where the technology is heading. The term “digital twin” has long been synonymous with sprawling factory…