In today’s Sliced 3D printing news digest: Renovis Surgical Technologies, Autodesk Pier 9, PrintMyRoute, University of Otago, HP, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Narbon, Tiangong…
Airbus sets sights on space with first 3D Systems printed RF satellite filter
The latest development from a collaboration between 3D Systems and Airbus proves that space is the place for 3D printing. In the redesign of a radio frequency (RF) filter engineers have managed to byp…
Oxford and Bristol deliver new high resolution method of 3D bioprinting live tissues
In a resin cube on a suspended platform, a glass pipette 3D prints mammal cells as individual droplets of water. The goal of this process is to create three-dimensional tissues that match the behaviou…
LPW to optimize metal 3D printing materials as chair at Lancaster University
Supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering, LPW Technology has launched a research chair in “Alloy and microstructure design for additive layer manufacturing” at Lancaster University in…
Sigma Labs triples Q2 revenue in latest report for FY 2017
After a three month period of strategic activity, metal 3D printing specialist and rapid prototyping provider Sigma Labs Inc. (NASDAQ:SGLB) has released results for the second quarter and first half o…
BYU 3D prints first of its kind sub 100 micron microfluidic chip
Researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU), Utah, are “deliberately trying to start a revolution” in the way chemical testing devices are made. Using a custom built 3D printer, scientis…
Harvard-MIT liver chip narrows gap between in vitro and in vivo drug tests
3D bioprinting, microfluidics and hydrogel scaffolding combine in the latest liver tissue research by a team of scientists attributable to seven institutions from across the globe. Centralized at Harv…
GE investigate the speed of metal 3D printers through higher power lasers
Since acquiring majority stakes in Arcam and Concept Laser with the industry’s biggest deal to date, GE has become a driver for the development of world leading metal 3D printing technologies. I…
KNTU researchers make 3D printed decoder for the brain
The laboratory for Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) at Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology (KNTU), Iran, has developed a 3D printed device capable of recording activity in the brain. The…
3D Printing News Sliced: Proto Labs, Optomec, ARMI and Strandbeest
In today’s Sliced 3D printing news digest: ColorPod, the 3D Pioneers Challenge, Optomec, id.arts, Proto Labs, Joint Mitnor, 3Diligent, ARMI, University of Florida, Sculpteo and Strandbeest. Colo…