Medical & Dental

In a further attempt to move to focus only on 3D printing, 3D Systems has announced that they have sold their medical simulation business, Simbionix. The $305 million USD sale of the simulation business was to Surgical Science Sweden AB,…

Shapeways has announced that they have entered an agreement to be Armor Bionics’ exclusive 3D printing manufacturer. The leader in digital manufacturing, known for its on-demand manufacturing in industries as vast as medical, robotics, architecture, jewelry and gaming, will be…

Eva de Goede, three-time Olympic field field hockey champion with the Netherlands, broke her wrist shortly before the 2021 European Championship. Not wanting to leave one of its best players on the bench, the Dutch team tried to find solutions…

Additive manufacturing continues to evolve, though rather than getting bigger, this time it’s getting smaller, microscopic even. Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF), based as the name suggests in Massachusetts in the United States, is known for their high precision micro 3D…

It is no secret that 3D technologies, and especially 3D scanners are becoming increasingly important in the dental sector. Recently, we covered the top dental lab 3D scanners, larger scanners that are used, as the name suggests, by dental labs…

In 2020, 2.3 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer globally. Breast cancer is the most common cancer across the world, and with breast cancer survival rates at 90%, the medical industry has ramped up efforts to enhance breast reconstruction…

Those who have been following our news for a while will certainly be familiar with the startup Kumovis. Because in 2018, only one year after its founding, Kumovis was already among the winners of the Formnext Startup Challenge. A year…

The first and second place winners in NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge have created 3D printed lab-grown human liver tissues. The two teams of scientists, both from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina were able…

In the orthopedic sector and more broadly in medicine, additive manufacturing has become an essential technology. Whether for the production of prostheses, orthoses or implants, 3D printing allows medical devices to be manufactured in a short period of time and…

Readily3D is a young Swiss startup that has developed a volumetric 3D printing method to create complex organic shapes in just a few seconds. The company used tomography to design its first 3D printer, which is capable of solidifying an…

At the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), a team of researchers, along with doctors from St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, have developed an innovative method for bioprinting medical implants. Instead of designing scaffolds on which cells will multiply,…

A few months ago we introduced you to Expert3D, a postgraduate course aimed at doctors, healthcare professionals, engineers and technicians in the healthcare sector. Offered by the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona (SJD) and other European medical centers, and…